ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,013, issued on March 3, was assigned to Atlan Electrics Appliance Co. Ltd. (Chongqing, China).
"Water-dispensing system for generating boiled water of different temperatures" was invented by Lian-Hong Li (Chongqing, China), Xue Ma (Chongqing, China) and Xing-Fu Yang (Chongqing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water-dispensing system includes an inlet channel for supplying unboiled water, a boiling area, a heat-exchange area, and a chilling area. The boiling area has a heater disposed on the inlet channel for boiling the unboiled water and connected to a hot-water channel. The hot-water channel is connected to a feeding channel...