ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,660, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Liquid discharging apparatus and waste liquid tank" was invented by Kazushige Saigusa (Nagoya, Japan), Shohei Ichikawa (Niwa, Japan), Fumiya Nakamura (Nagoya, Japan), Kazuma Kobayashi (Nagoya, Japan), Masako Kawagoe (Nagoya, Japan), Haruhisa Shirai (Kasugai, Japan) and Asami Hashimoto (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharging apparatus, having a sheet conveyer path, a liquid discharging head including nozzles for discharging liquid, a cap configured to cover the liquid discharging head, a liquid receiver located at a position diffe...