US Patent Issued to Kohler on March 25 for "Shower system" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,062, issued on March 25, was assigned to Kohler Co. (Kohler, Wis.).

"Shower system" was invented by Chad J. Cochart (Sheboygan, Wis.), Douglas J. Brouwer (Sheboygan, Wis.) and Jack Robert Warning (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shower system includes a shower waterway and a fluid control valve. The shower waterway is configured to be coupled to a shower device. The fluid control valve is coupled to the shower waterway and comprises a valve body and a piston. The valve body includes a chamber and a reservoir. The piston is slidably coupled to the valve body and fluidly separates the chamber from the reservoir. The chamber...