ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,279, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Jiangsu Sanjo Intelligent Technology Co. Ltd. (Jiangsu, China) and Photon Robot (Ningbo) Co. Ltd. (Zhejiang, China).

"Plastic bag packaging and separating device for intelligent packaging toilet" was invented by Heping Xiao (Jiangsu, China), Lei Wang (Jiangsu, China) and Jiang Zhang (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plastic bag packaging and separating device for an intelligent packaging toilet includes a synchronous belt, a driving shaft, a motor, guide rods, a gathering mechanism, roller assemblies, a hot melting base, and a hot melting device, and further includes a silica gel...