ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,747, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).
"System and method for reducing plastic waste in inkjet printers" was invented by Jorge A. Alvarez (Webster, N.Y.), Seemit Praharaj (Webster, N.Y.), Jason M. LeFevre (Penfield, N.Y.), Anthony S. Condello (Webster, N.Y.) and Douglas K. Herrmann (Webster, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet printer uses ink supply containers that includes bladders for holding waste fluids produced by printhead maintenance stations. The bladders are connected serially or in parallel to the output ports of the printhead maintenance stations to store waste fluids within the bl...