US Patent Issued to Shanghai Kohler Electronics on Nov. 3 for "Method and device for automatically tracking urine" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,337, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Shanghai Kohler Electronics Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Method and device for automatically tracking urine" was invented by Qintao Sun (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of automatically tracking urine in a toilet includes creating a background image of an interior of a toilet bowl using an image sensor, wherein the background image shows the interior of the toilet bowl. The method also includes acquiring an image of the interior of the toilet bowl using the image sensor, wherein the acquired image shows urine and a collecting and tracking member in the interior of the toilet bowl. The method...