ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,802, issued on July 29, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Liquid discharging apparatus" was invented by Shohei Ichikawa (Niwa, Japan), Asami Hashimoto (Okazaki, Japan), Fumiya Nakamura (Nagoya, Japan) and Kazushige Saigusa (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a liquid discharging apparatus including: a main body casing; a head; a maintenance unit including a cap, a suction pump and a waste liquid tube in which a liquid sucked by the suction pump is to flow; and a waste liquid reservoir which has a joint to which the waste liquid tube is connected or to be connected, and which is configure...