ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,497, issued on June 17, was assigned to NEOPERL GMBH (Mullheim, Germany).

"Sanitary kit, sanitary functional arrangement and method for producing a sanitary functional arrangement" was invented by Holger Schurle (Mullheim, Germany), Fabian Wildfang (Mullheim, Germany) and Christoph Weis (Mullheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sanitary construction kit (1) having at least one outflow element (2), at least one control element (3), and at least one connection element (4) by way of which the outflow element (2) is fluidically connectable to the control element (3). At least two functionally dissimilar control elements (3) whi...