US Patent Issued to TOTO on July 8 for "Flush toilet apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,028, issued on July 8, was assigned to TOTO Ltd. (Kitakyushu, Japan).

"Flush toilet apparatus" was invented by Takumi Tsuchitani (Kitakyushu, Japan), Kenichi Nakamura (Kitakyushu, Japan), Hiroshi Hashimoto (Kitakyushu, Japan), Shinichi Urata (Kitakyushu, Japan), Chisato Sone (Kitakyushu, Japan) and Koichiro Matsumura (Kitakyushu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a flush toilet apparatus having a flush toilet main body that includes a bowl, a water discharge trap pipe, an upper water discharge port, a lower water discharge port, and a flush control device configured to execute both a large flush mode and a small flush m...