US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on March 4 for "Board, liquid accommodation container, and printing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,248, issued on March 4, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Board, liquid accommodation container, and printing system" was invented by Shuichi Nakano (Shiojiri, Japan), Yasuhiko Kosugi (Matsumoto, Japan) and Jun Sato (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a board that includes a plurality of contact portions that are arranged to contact corresponding apparatus-side terminals when the board is mounted in a printing apparatus, some contact portions are disposed in a first region, and the remaining contact portions are disposed in a second region. The some contact portions include a first contact portion, a second c...