US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on May 13 for "Ink refill container, ink refill system, and ink refill adapter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,600, issued on May 13, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ink refill container, ink refill system, and ink refill adapter" was invented by Tadahiro Mizutani (Shiojiri, Japan), Ryoichi Tanaka (Shiojiri, Japan), Manabu Akahane (Tatsuno-machi, Japan), Makoto Kobayashi (Shiojiri, Japan), Naomi Kimura (Okaya, Japan), Hideki Okumura (Shiojiri, Japan), Shoma Kudo (Shiojiri, Japan), Tetsuya Takamoto (Matsumoto, Japan) and Hiroaki Sakai (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink refill container includes a container main body including an ink storage chamber, an ink outlet-forming portion provided on an end portion of the...