US Patent Issued to Toto on May 12 for "Wall-mounted flush toilet" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,539, issued on May 12, was assigned to Toto Ltd. (Fukuoka, Japan).

"Wall-mounted flush toilet" was invented by Yuuki Shinohara (Kitakyushu, Japan), Hiroshi Hashimoto (Kitakyushu, Japan) and Yuya Miyake (Kitakyushu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wall-mounted flush toilet includes a toilet main body fixed to a wall; and an illuminating device attached to the toilet main body, the illuminating device being configured to emit light to a floor surface, wherein the toilet main body includes a bowl, a discharge trap having an inlet connected below the bowl to discharge waste in the bowl, a skirt configured to cover sides of each of ...