ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,487, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Xiamen Rainshower Co. Ltd. (Xiamen, China).

"Multifunctional handheld shower" was invented by Hewei Liu (Xiamen, China), Weifeng Zeng (Xiamen, China) and Ruiqiang Zhang (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a multifunctional shower, which includes a body, a water outlet assembly, a water channel switching device and a water stop device. The inner cavity of the body is hollow and has a handle; The shower water inlet channel and the spray gun water inlet channel are separated, and there is a water passage hole connected to the outlet end of the shower water inlet c...