ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,967, issued on June 23, was assigned to XIAMEN OLT. Co. LTD. (Xiamen, China).
"Control method for intelligent toilet cover based on single infrared sensor" was invented by Dehuang Wu (Xiamen, China) and Zhenguo Zhang (Xiamen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method of an intelligent toilet cover based on a single infrared sensor includes the following steps: detecting a presence of a human body by an infrared sensor (130), and transmitting detected signal to a first control module (101) to control a second opening/closing mechanism to open the toilet cover (12), wherein the infrared sensor (130) has a first sensing dist...