ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,697, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Liquid discharging apparatus" was invented by Masako Kawagoe (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharging apparatus, having a main housing, a liquid discharging head with nozzles, a container to store a printable medium, a waste liquid storage located at a position to at least partly overlap the container and lower than the container in a vertical direction, a mountable compartment, in which the waste liquid storage is demountably mountable, is provided. The mountable compartment is formed on a sideward face of the main housing on one s...