ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,448, issued on March 31, was assigned to ZHEJIANG IKAHE SANITARY WARE Co. LTD. (Taizhou, China).

"Control system and a control method of intelligent toilets" was invented by Guangqi Xu (Taizhou, China) and Rui Liu (Taizhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments of this application disclose a control system and a control method of intelligent toilets. The control system includes a toilet body, a communication device which is set on the toilet body to acquire the geographic location information of the toilet body, and transmit the acquired geographic location information to a server which acquires the external environme...