ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,922, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Liquid storage body and liquid jetting apparatus" was invented by Hiroshi Inomata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ken Ikegame (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid storage body includes: a bag part being flexible and configured to store a liquid therein; a liquid outlet part attached to a first end portion of the bag part and configured to discharge to a liquid jetting apparatus stored the liquid in the bag part; and a channel part disposed inside the bag part and configured to let the liquid flow to the liquid outlet part, in which both ends of the channel part ar...