US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 23 for "Printing apparatus and liquid container" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,554, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and liquid container" was invented by Koki Shimada (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideaki Matsumura (Tokyo), Yuri Mori (Tokyo), Tsuyoshi Saeki (Kanagawa, Japan), Ken Takenaga (Kanagawa, Japan), Daiju Takeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Shota Asada (Tokyo), Hiromasa Tsutsumi (Kanagawa, Japan), Mineyoshi Tomie (Saitama, Japan), Takao Kawai (Tokyo), Megumi Ueta (Kanagawa, Japan) and Erika Iyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a liquid container. The liquid container includes a storage portion configured to store a liquid to be suppl...