ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,769, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Toto Ltd. (Fukuoka, Japan).
"Flush toilet apparatus" was invented by Ryohei Okabe (Fukuoka, Japan), Kenji Hatama (Fukuoka, Japan), Kenji Watanabe (Fukuoka, Japan) and Hiroshi Hashimoto (Fukuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a flush toilet apparatus that includes a flush toilet main body, and a flush water tank that is fixed via at least two fixing points and causes flush water to flow into a water inlet of the flush toilet main body, in which the water inlet is provided at a position eccentric to one side with respect to a lengthwise center line of the flu...