ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,873, issued on March 18, was assigned to B/E AEROSPACE INC. (Winston Salem, N.C.).
"Touchless faucet" was invented by Sanith Kurumpilavu Subramanian (Bangalore, India), Raja Mandava (Bangalore, India) and Vishwanand Vishwannathan (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touchless faucet for an aircraft lavatory may comprise a faucet housing and an electrically controlled valve assembly located in the faucet housing. The electrically controlled valve assembly may be configured to control a flow of fluid to a primary outlet of the faucet housing. A manual actuation assembly may be located in the faucet housing. The manual ac...