ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,585, issued on June 17, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Seal member and toner storage container including same" was invented by Kazuaki Fujiwara (Osaka, Japan) and Yosuke Saito (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal member has a first seal layer which is opposite a container main body; and a second seal layer which is opposite a cap member and the compression slip resistance Rho [N] of the first seal layer, the compression rate k [%] of the first seal layer, the thickness T1 [mm] of the first seal layer, the compression residual strain Epsilon1[%] of the first seal layer, the thickness T2...