US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on May 6 for "Liquid ejection apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,039, issued on May 6, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid ejection apparatus" was invented by Nanami Haga (Shiojiri, Japan), Hiromichi Takanashi (Shiojiri, Japan), Kenji Tsukada (Nagano, Japan) and Yuta Komatsu (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejection apparatus includes a first storage portion capable of storing a liquid supplied from a liquid container, a first open-to-atmosphere channel configured to open the inside of the first storage portion to the atmosphere, a second storage portion capable of storing the liquid supplied from the first storage portion, and a second open-to-atmosphere cha...