ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,721, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to AS America Inc. (Piscataway, N.J.).
"Automatic faucet" was invented by Xiaojing Ye (Edison, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A faucet assembly comprising a faucet body, a spout and a spray head, wherein the spray head comprises one or more detectors selected from a group consisting of time-of-flight sensors, camera sensors, image sensors, and time-of-flight camera sensors positioned on a face of the spray head, the spray head face defines a water flow path, and the one or more detectors are configured to recognize an item located in the water flow path."
The patent was filed on March 22, 20...