ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,293, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to JOMOO KITCHEN & BATH DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Munich).

"Sanitary device" was invented by Johann Dueck (Feurstenfeldbruck, Germany), Fabian Kreuzer (Munich), Thomas Richter (Munich), Benjamin Mohrich (Munich), Daniel Gemmecke (Munich), Muya Hong (Munich) and Lin Xiaowei (Fujian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sanitary device has a programmable electronic control unit that acts on a metering and mixer valve unit. The electronic control unit has a program memory suitable for the retrievable storage of multiple different water dispensing programs and a central data processing unit that acts on at ...