US Patent Issued on Aug. 11 for "Water heaters with computing elements as a network" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,888, issued on Aug. 11.

"Water heaters with computing elements as a network" was invented by Simon Duchesne (Quebec, Canada) and Dominique Duchesne (Saint-Armand, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric water heater with a computing device used to heat water from a residential or industrial water tank while executing useful computational tasks for a network. It includes a water tank, a heat exchanger, a computing device, a connectivity system to connect the computing device to a network, the network supplying computing tasks to the computing device, such that running the computing tasks results in a heat production, and a t...