ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,781, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUOSS Co. LTD. (Incheon, South Korea).

"Toilet bowl bidet capable of preventing droplets from splashing when toilet is flushed" was invented by Sang Yun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Pil Won Bong (Ansan-si, South Korea) and Heung Soon Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a toilet bowl bidet capable of preventing droplets from splashing, the toilet bowl bidet including a washing water supply hose (150) having an air pump (180) disposed at an outlet side of a washing water valve (160) and configured to mix air into washing water supplied to a bidet nozzle unit (14...