ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,704, issued on Sept. 23.
"Accessible subfloor bath" was invented by Jonathan Levi (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include one or more of a tub that provides tub access to a seated user and includes a top surface, a bottom surface, and a concave well therebetween, a platform that includes water openings extending therethrough, a lift, coupled to a bottom surface of the platform, the lift disposed within the tub and configured to lower the platform within the well, and a plurality of jets around an inner periphery of the well, configured to apply a liquid cleaning solution within the tub in response to the lift and...