US Patent Issued to AS America on Nov. 11 for "Automatic sanitaryware assembly and systems" (New Jersey, New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,246, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AS America Inc. (Piscataway, N.J.).

"Automatic sanitaryware assembly and systems" was invented by Karl Torres (Columbus, N.J.), Claudia Marcela Jovel (Spring, Texas), Ki Bok Song (Plainview, N.Y.), Soonjae Kwon (Astoria, N.Y.), Joseph John Ientile (Port Murray, N.J.) and Stanimir Stoynov (Westfield, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flush valve assembly for an automatic sanitaryware assembly, comprising a flush valve; a status sensor; a presence sensor associated with a presence sensor lens; an antenna associated with an antenna lens; a manual override actuator; and a controller. A status s...