US Patent Issued to TOTO on Oct. 20 for "Toilet seat device and closet bowl device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,728, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TOTO Ltd. (Kitakyushu, Japan).

"Toilet seat device and closet bowl device" was invented by Takeshi Takaki (Fukuoka, Japan), Satoko Kizuka (Fukuoka, Japan), Yuta Sakai (Fukuoka, Japan), Hirotomo Suyama (Fukuoka, Japan), Hitoaki Higuchi (Fukuoka, Japan), Naoya Takeuchi (Fukuoka, Japan), Haruna Kawasaki (Fukuoka, Japan), Ryo Oi (Fukuoka, Japan), Yusuke Motoda (Fukuoka, Japan) and Yo Morotomi (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toilet seat device according to an embodiment is a toilet seat device configured to be attached to an upper part of a closet bowl on which a bowl part for recei...