ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,293, issued on July 15, was assigned to ZHUHAI NINESTAR MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Zhuhai, China).

"Ink cartridge and printing apparatus" was invented by Jingzhang Xia (Zhuhai, China), Shichao Liang (Zhuhai, China) and Zhengtao Li (Zhuhai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink cartridge and a printing apparatus using the same. The ink cartridge includes an ink cartridge body, a chip and a chip holder, and the chip is fixed on the chip holder; when the ink cartridge is installed on the printer along an installation direction, the printer may drive the chip holder to linearly move along a top surface of the ink cartridge body, the chip...