ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,343, issued on May 26, was assigned to CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).
"Method for hands free auto-filling one or more water reservoirs of a liquid dispenser and a related apparatus" was invented by John E. Deeds (Johnstown, Ohio) and Dennis Laurier Rivard (Alberta, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of hands free auto-filling of one or more water reservoirs of a liquid dispensing apparatus in which one or more conditions of the liquid dispensing apparatus indicative of the position of one or more float valves operably associated with the one or more water reservoirs of the liquid dispensing app...