ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,727, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to AS America Inc. (Piscataway, N.J.).
"Self-cleaning toilet assembly" was invented by Jean-Jacques L'Henaff (New Canaan, Conn.), Ki Bok Song (Plainview, N.Y.), Jacob Nitz (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Alison J. Lyons (Jersey City, N.J.), Paul Flowers (London) and Greg Reinecker (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-cleaning toilet assembly, configured to operate in a flush mode to perform a flush cycle to clear a toilet bowl of bowl contents, and to operate in an independent on-demand cleaning mode to perform a clean cycle to clean the bowl. The toilet assembly comprises a clean cycle actuato...