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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2023

Filed:

Jul. 13, 2018
Applicant:

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);

Inventor:

Duane A Koehler, Vancouver, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/175 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/17506 (2013.01); B41J 2/1752 (2013.01);
Abstract

In some examples an imaging device can include a fill port to receive a colorant container including an alignment circuit, a controller including a processing resource and memory resource including a non-transitory computer-readable instructions executable by the processing resource to detect a presence of a colorant container in a fill port of an imaging device, responsive to detection of the colorant container in the fill port, detect if the colorant container is properly inserted in the fill port, and cause a fill process to initiate responsive to detection that the colorant container is properly inserted.


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