US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on May 27 for "Liquid discharging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,668, issued on May 27, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Liquid discharging apparatus" was invented by Kazuma Kobayashi (Nagoya, Japan), Masako Kawagoe (Nagoya, Japan), Haruhisa Shirai (Kasugai, Japan), Shohei Ichikawa (Niwa, Japan), Fumiya Nakamura (Nagoya, Japan), Kazushige Saigusa (Nagoya, Japan) and Asami Hashimoto (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharging apparatus, having a housing, a liquid discharging device configured to discharge liquid, a first waste liquid collecting device and a second waste liquid collecting device for collecting the liquid discharged from the liquid discharg...