ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,330, issued on June 17, was assigned to Cleana Inc. (Wyckoff, N.J.).
"Self-lowering toilet seat system" was invented by Max Pounanov (Belmont, Mass.), Mingyuan Li (Cambridge, Mass.) and Greg Blonder (Brookline, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-lowering toilet seat system includes a toilet bowl and a toilet seat. The system includes a hinge rotatably coupling the toilet seat and the toilet bowl. The hinge is configured so that the toilet seat is transitionable between a down position and an up position. A lowering device is configured to self-lower the toilet seat towards the down position. A fixedly sealed hinge housing ha...