US Patent Issued to Kohler on March 31 for "Faucet installation assemblies and methods of installing the same" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,445, issued on March 31, was assigned to Kohler Co. (Kohler, Wis.).

"Faucet installation assemblies and methods of installing the same" was invented by Gabriel Maclean Niederlander (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The faucet installation assemblies can include flexible stems that can be movably aligned with an aperture in order to install a faucet body onto a deck without the need to install the hardware under the deck. A faucet installation assembly can include an anchoring component including a crushable anchor with a plurality of flexible stems extending axially from the anchor, and a gasket, locator/locker washers...