ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,227, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CVS Pharmacy Inc. (Woonsocket, R.I.).
"Combination commode and chair" was invented by Robert Beale Van Varick (Yardley, Pa.), Donald Samuel Strum (Princeton, N.J.) and George Benjamin Wintner (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative commode is described to include a seat having an opening therein, a seat base connected with the seat and configured to allow the seat to move between an open position and a closed position, a leg assembly configured to support the seat base, where the leg assembly is configured to adjust a height of the seat base, and an armrest configured to ...