ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,467, issued on April 22, was assigned to Kohler Co. (Kohler, Wis.).
"Lavatory with hidden drain" was invented by Cristian Mastellotto (Damparis, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lavatory includes a basin including a bottom surface, the basin configured to hold a volume of water; and a drain opening disposed in the bottom surface of the basin. The bottom surface of the basin includes a substantially horizontally extending projection formed integrally with the bottom surface of the basin. The horizontally extending projection is disposed over the drain opening such that the drain opening is at least partially obscured from a view...