ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,881, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to B/E AEROSPACE INC. (Winston Salem, N.C.).
"Inadvertent operations in touchless lavatory" was invented by Bruno Abreu Calfa (Vernon, Conn.), Brett Israelsen (Glastonbury, Conn.), Matthew R. Pearson (Hartford, Conn.), Amit Surana (Newington, Conn.) and Kunal Srivastava (Newington, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a touchless lavatory is disclosed herein. The method includes collecting, by a processor, sensor data from a sensor, the sensor data including an ambient light measurement and an indication of motion, aggregating, by the processor, the collected sensor data f...