ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,095, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Revincus GmbH (Weimar, Germany).
"Waste-water diverter" was invented by Felix Konstantin Drechsel (Weimar, Germany) and Ben Schaefer (Ilmenau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waste water diverter may have a housing, which encloses a cavity, a waste water inlet arranged at an upper end of the housing and opening into the cavity. The diverter may also have a grey water outlet and a black water outlet, which are connected to the cavity, and arranged at a lower end of the housing. A guide plate may be arranged in the cavity to be pivotable about an axis of rotation between a first position...