US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Nov. 18 for "Recording apparatus, consumable for recording apparatus, and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,875, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Recording apparatus, consumable for recording apparatus, and information processing method" was invented by Tetsunori Mori (Kariya, Japan), Taichiro Kimoto (Nagoya, Japan) and Zenichiro Sasaki (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording apparatus includes a main body of the recording apparatus, and a consumable which is detachably attached to the main body of the recording apparatus. The consumable has a consumable memory which stores use amount information of a consumable material included in the consumable and recycling history information of...