ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,024, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to XIAMEN DELMEI SANITARY WARE Co. LTD. (Xiamen, China).
"Sensing and touch-controlled faucet" was invented by Chunhua Wang (Xiamen, China) and Yongqiang Yan (Fuzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing and touch-controlled faucet includes a casing, a covering plate, a water flow sensor, and a soap sensor. The casing has a water outlet arranged proximal to the bottom of a faucet working end, the casing also has a soap dispensing port and a mounting cavity communicating with the water outlet and the soap dispensing port, the soap dispensing port is arranged near the water outlet and the ...