ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,597, issued on May 13, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Liquid cartridge" was invented by Naoya Okazaki (Gifu-ken, Japan), Tetsuro Kobayashi (Nagoya, Japan), Hiroaki Takahashi (Nagoya, Japan), Kosuke Nukui (Nagoya, Japan), Akihito Ono (Nagoya, Japan), Mikio Hirano (Okazaki, Japan), Suguru Tomoguchi (Okazaki, Japan), Yutao Wang (Obu, Japan) and Tomohiro Kanbe (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid cartridge includes a first surface, a second surface spaced apart from the first surface, and a third surface extending between the first surface and the second surface, with a liquid outlet through the fi...