ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,117, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Liquid accommodation body" was invented by Azusa Nei (Shiojiri, Japan), Satoru Kobayashi (Shiojiri, Japan) and Jun Shimazaki (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid accommodation body to be connected to a liquid ejection device for ejecting liquid, the liquid accommodation body including a container that has an inlet section with an inlet through which liquid is introduced and that contains the liquid; a cap that seals the inlet by covering the inlet section; and a lead out section that leads liquid to the liquid ejection device; wherein when the cap...