ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,356, issued on June 16.
"Device to close toilet lid before flushing" was invented by Adam Philip Wilewski (Taby, Sweden) and Jessica Maria Penzo (Taby, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Device to close a toilet lid before flushing contains a base part (2) in which a drive device in form of an electrical motor (7) is situated. On top of the base part (2) a motion detector (5) is located that controls a movable arm (3). Within the base part a motherboard (6) is situated. With help from the movement that emerge when flushing the motion detector (5) is activated, that in turn activates the electrical motor (7) that is connected with ...