ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,622, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Liquid supplying system including tank and liquid bottle connectable to the tank" was invented by Takuya Tsuji (Ama-gun, Japan) and Yoshinori Osakabe (Seto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid supplying system includes a tank, a first tubular portion, a second tubular portion, a sleeve portion, and a liquid bottle. The first and second tubular portions have inner ends positioned inside a storage chamber of the tank, and outer ends positioned outside of the storage chamber. The first and second tubular portions are positioned inside the sleeve porti...