ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,741, issued on March 25, was assigned to Shanghai Kohler Electronics Ltd. (Shanghai).
"Multifunction faucet" was invented by Xiaojun Zhou (Shanghai), Qiang Xiao (Shanghai), Feiying Su (Shanghai) and Weiren Lin (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A faucet that includes a housing with a water supply assembly, a soap supply assembly, first and second sensing probe assemblies, and a controller provided in the housing, wherein a sensing region of the first sensing probe assembly is an upper portion of the housing, a sensing region of the second sensing probe assembly is a lower portion of the housing, an output terminal of each sens...