ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,328, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to LIXIL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Functional unit for toilet system and toilet system" was invented by Yusuke Nakashima (Tokyo), Takahito Nakase (Tokyo) and Yusuke Sato (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A functional unit for a toilet system includes: a discharge section discharging, into a toilet bowl, a test agent that allows for determination of a health condition of a human body through a reaction with urine; an input device configured to allow a user to perform an operation for discharging the test agent from the discharge section; and a control section controlling the discharge section based on th...