ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,164, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY Americas Residential Inc. (New Haven, Conn.).
"Faucet spray head alignment system" was invented by Adam William Tracy (Irvine, Calif.), Oscar Romero (Lake Forest, Calif.), Evan Benstead (Los Angeles) and Jan Van Leyen (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A faucet includes a faucet body and a faucet spray head being movable from a retracted position adjacent the faucet body, and an extended position away from the faucet body. In the retracted position, the faucet spray head has at least one aligned position with the faucet body. The faucet includes an alignment coupling. The...