Patent ID: 8584266

Claim:
A toilet seat lifting device comprising: a flexible, resilient base having a hemispherical body and an annular outside edge, said outside edge being configured to connect to a toilet rim; and, a stem, comprising a solid cylindrical body, protruding upwardly from a top end of said base opposite said outside edge, said stem being configured to contact an underside surface of said toilet seat; wherein said base provides an upward force in response to an opposed downward force, said upward force being greater than said downward force generated by the mass of said toilet seat in order to maintain said toilet seat at a non-zero angle relative to said toilet rim, said non-zero angle being less than 90 degrees; and wherein said upward force is less than said downward force generated by the mass of said toilet seat combined with the mass of a toilet lid in order to allow said toilet seat and said toilet lid in combination to be positioned parallel to said toilet rim.