US Patent Issued to AS America on June 16 for "Toilet seat assembly with UV light" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,357, issued on June 16, was assigned to AS America Inc. (Piscataway, N.J.).

"Toilet seat assembly with UV light" was invented by Nitin S. Kolekar (Piscataway, N.J.), Christophe Bucher (Hillsborough, N.J.), Ki Bok Song (Plainview, N.Y.), Ronald D. Barndt (Bethlehem, Pa.), Behnam Heydari (Ridgewood, N.J.), Douglas Fornell Leavitt (Bethlehem, Pa.) and Zachary Robert Sweitzer (Green Pond, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toilet seat assembly includes a toilet seat and a lid hinged to the toilet seat; wherein the lid comprises an inner liner that comprises a shaped surface portion and a core portion, the shaped surface portion is sha...