US Patent Issued to PARAMOUNT BED on Sept. 16 for "Information collection apparatus and apparatus attaching method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,660, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to PARAMOUNT BED Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information collection apparatus and apparatus attaching method" was invented by Takeshi Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirokazu Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Junpei Kumagai (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazutoshi Ohishi (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Katayanagi (Kanagawa, Japan), Keita Yamaguchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takeyoshi Obara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information collection apparatus includes: a sitting sensor detecting that a user of a toilet bowl in a toilet is sitting on a toilet seat placed on the top surface of a rim of the bowl; an informat...