ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,588, issued on March 24, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Adaptable toilet systems and methods" was invented by Jared Arthur Bowen (Lynnwood, Wash.), Cynthia Anne Vandewall (Snohomish, Wash.), Christopher Kenneth Cooley (Cincinnati) and Henry Lacrosse Levesque (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method include a shroud including a basin, and a sit toilet moveably coupled to the shroud. The sit toilet is moveable between a first configuration in which the sit toilet is disposed over the basin, and a second configuration in which the sit toilet is moved away from the shroud to expose the basin. T...