ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,383, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Fortune Brands Water Innovations LLC (Deerfield, Ill.).

"Faucet with coupling system" was invented by Ki Y. So (Seven Hills, Ohio) and Harshil Parikh (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a wand hose for providing two flow paths to a faucet with a wand that can be pulled away from a body of the faucet. The hose includes an inner hose defining a first flow path which extends through an outer hose. A second flow path extends between the inner hose and the outer sleeve. The first flow path couples to a first wand waterway and the second flow path couples to...