ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,037, issued on April 29, was assigned to Xiamen Lota International Co. Ltd. (Fujian, China).

"Shower controlling device" was invented by Liming Ye (Fujian, China), Shuanglin Bai (Fujian, China), Xinzong Huang (Fujian, China) and Chuanbao Zhu (Fujian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shower controlling device, comprising a body part, comprising multiple water inlets each for supplying hot fluid and cold fluid, water outlet(s) for discharging mixed fluid and outlet cavity, wherein these water inlets are disposed opposite to each other, and the water outlet(s) is disposed perpendicular to these water inlets, and the outlet cavity i...