ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,074, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Wenzhou University (Wenzhou, China).

"Closestool with classification, collection and treatment functions" was invented by Xiangyong Zheng (Wenzhou, China), Wencong Zhu (Wenzhou, China), Min Zhao (Wenzhou, China), Ping Ma (Wenzhou, China), Shunfeng Jiang (Wenzhou, China), Zhiquan Wang (Wenzhou, China), Huachang Jin (Wenzhou, China), Suqing Wu (Wenzhou, China), Zhan Jin (Wenzhou, China), Ke Bei (Wenzhou, China), Bentuo Xu (Wenzhou, China) and Hainan Kong (Wenzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closestool with classification, collection and treatment functions includes a closestool body, ...