ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. D1,067,394, issued on March 18, was assigned to TOTO Ltd. (Kitakyushu, Japan).

"Toilet seat" was invented by Kazuki Otsuka (Kitakyushu, Japan), Masanobu Wano (Kitakyushu, Japan), Hiroshi Shimoda (Kitakyushu, Japan) and Hirotaka Nakabayashi (Kitakyushu, Japan).

The patent was filed on Sept. 30, 2020, under Application No. D/753,425.

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