ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,861, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOTO Ltd. (Kitakyushu, Japan).

"Toilet device, method for controlling toilet device, and control program of toilet device" was invented by Yutaro Terada (Kitakyushu, Japan), Satoshi Kawada (Kitakyushu, Japan), Takamasa Suzuki (Kitakyushu, Japan) and Junki Hamada (Kitakyushu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toilet device includes a biological information measurement sensor, a controller, a wireless communication part, and a storage part. The biological information measurement sensor is configured to measure biological information. The controller is configured to transmit the biological in...