ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,677, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharging apparatus and liquid accommodating device" was invented by Yasuhiro Hosokawa (Nagano, Japan), Masahiko Yoshida (Nagano, Japan), Junpei Yoshida (Nagano, Japan), Tadashi Ishikawa (Nagano, Japan), Takanori Yokoi (Yamagata-mura, Japan) and Toru Matsuyama (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharging apparatus includes an accommodating container accommodating conductive liquid, a rod-shaped first electrode accommodated in the accommodating container, a rod-shaped second electrode accommodated in the accommodating container, a detectio...