ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,139, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TOTO Ltd. (Fukuoka, Japan).

"Toilet device, method for controlling a toilet device, and control program of a toilet device" was invented by Yutaro Terada (Kitakyushu, Japan), Satoshi Kawada (Kitakyushu, Japan), Takamasa Suzuki (Kitakyushu, Japan), Junki Hamada (Kitakyushu, Japan), Takaaki Gondo (Kitakyushu, Japan) and Takashi Matsunaga (Kitakyushu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toilet device includes a toilet unit including a toilet seat, a biological information measuring part configured to measure biological information of a user, a wireless communication part configured to wirelessl...