ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,189, issued on April 8, was assigned to AS America Inc. (Piscataway, N.J.).
"Toilet assembly" was invented by Christopher Helmstetter (Langhorne, Pa.), David Grover (Stockton, N.J.), Yasuhiro Kondo (Aichi, Japan), Douglas Leavitt (Bethlehem, Pa.) and Ronald D. Barndt (Bethlehem, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A skirted toilet assembly, comprising a toilet bowl having a sump outlet; and a wall extending around the bowl from a first rear edge to a second rear edge; wherein the wall, the first rear edge, and the second rear edge define a space within the wall, the sump outlet is configured to couple to a trapway, the trapway is conf...