US Patent Issued to Canon on May 13 for "Liquid refill container for refilling liquid discharge apparatus with liquid, and reuse system using liquid refill container" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,013, issued on May 13, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Liquid refill container for refilling liquid discharge apparatus with liquid, and reuse system using liquid refill container" was invented by Kyosuke Nagaoka (Tokyo), Ryoji Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan), Naozumi Nabeshima (Tokyo) and Keiichiro Tsukuda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid refill container for refilling a liquid discharge apparatus with liquid includes a liquid storage portion, a pouring portion, and a cap portion. The liquid storage portion is made of a metal and contains liquid. The pouring portion is removeably connected to the liquid storage ...