ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,535, issued on May 12, was assigned to LIXIL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control device and water supply and drainage system" was invented by Yukiko Kihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device may comprise a controller configured to control water volume to be supplied to one or more specific sanitary facility devices of the plurality of sanitary facility devices by using a first indicator and a second indicator, the first indicator being related to an actual water volume actually used in a plurality of sanitary facility devices, and the second indicator being related to a target water volume to be used in the plurality of sanita...