US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on April 22 for "Ink refill container and ink refill system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,601, issued on April 22, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ink refill container and ink refill system" was invented by Tadahiro Mizutani (Shiojiri, Japan), Taku Ishizawa (Matsumoto, Japan), Noriyuki Fukasawa (Shiojiri, Japan), Naomi Kimura (Okaya, Japan), Shoma Kudo (Shiojiri, Japan) and Manabu Akahane (Tatsuno-machi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink refill container configured to refill an ink tank with ink includes a container main body having an ink chamber; an ink outlet forming portion provided at an edge of the container main body including an ink outlet configured to allow ink to flow out from the ink chamb...