ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,036, issued on July 1, was assigned to Hydraze Inc. (Potomac, Md.).

"Programmable toilet flush initiating, monitoring and management system and method thereof" was invented by Charles Dylan Grody (Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a toilet flushing initiating, monitoring and management system initiated by the unlocking of a locking member on a door mounted in a stall typically found in a bathroom such as a public bathroom. Signal patterns from flushing controller and a door housing controller are recorded and analyzed to identify associated fault conditions. Notifications of the associated fa...