US Patent Issued to RICOH on Sept. 16 for "Information storage system including a plurality of terminals" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,878, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information storage system including a plurality of terminals" was invented by Yasufumi Takahashi (Tokyo), Kunihiro Ohyama (Tokyo), Masayuki Yamane (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeshi Uchitani (Kanagawa, Japan), Tadashi Hayakawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Takuji Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Shouji Okabe (Kanagawa, Japan), Akira Shinshi (Tokyo), Yuichiro Ueda (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaki Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuuki Satoh (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toner container includes a container body, an opening, a cover, a toner discharge port, a shutter, a cylin...