US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 16 for "Toner container" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,880, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Toner container" was invented by Goshi Ozaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinichi Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroyuki Munetsugu (Kanagawa, Japan), Sohta Sugimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Mitsuhiro Sato (Tokyo), Masahiro Suetsugu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Seiya Ishikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided a toner container having: a storage portion configured to store toner; a nozzle portion having a discharging port configured to discharge, outside the toner container, toner stored in the storage portion, the nozzle portion being fixed to the storage portion such that the nozzle ...