ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,065, issued on June 3, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Ink refill container" was invented by Tadahiro Mizutani (Shiojiri, Japan), Yoshihiro Koizumi (Shiojiri, Japan), Taku Ishizawa (Matsumoto, Japan), Shun Oya (Kiso-machi, Japan), Tadashi Watanabe (Matsumoto, Japan) and Seigo Miyazawa (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink refill container for refilling a printer having an ink inlet flow-path member with ink includes: a container body portion configured to store ink; and an ink-outlet forming portion coupled to the container body portion and having a cylindrical portion forming an ink outlet. The ink-outlet...