ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,038, issued on June 23, was assigned to GEBERIT INTERNATIONAL AG (Jona, Switzerland).

"Sanitary technology diagnostic system and method" was invented by Christoph Walch (Jona, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sanitary technology diagnostic system comprises at least one sanitary device, a user device, a server device, and a diagnostic device. The user device is adapted to request and receive device information linked to an identifier of the at least one sanitary device from the at least one sanitary device, to generate a service number, to send a data set comprising the service number and the received device information to...