ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,143, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AS America Inc. (Piscataway, N.J.).
"Flush valve apparatus" was invented by Eric B. Soberano (Barnegat, N.J.) and Walter Pitsch (Washington, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flush valve assembly for sanitaryware, comprising a flush valve having a valve inlet configured to be fluidly coupled to a water source inlet pipe and a valve outlet configured to be fluidly coupled to a flush water outlet pipe; a solenoid valve; a presence sensor; a controller; and a flow sensor and/or a pressure sensor, wherein the controller is configured to open the solenoid valve to initiate a flush cycle, the f...