ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,999, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to BRITA SE (Taunusstein, Germany).
"Hot water heating device" was invented by Oliver Machui (Bad Homburg, Germany), Ralph Maier (Kronberg, Germany) and Matthias Hensel (Hanau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot water heating device includes a heating chamber with a water inlet for feeding water into the heating chamber and with a water outlet for removing hot water from the heating chamber. The water outlet includes an outlet duct with a suction opening arranged within the heating chamber at a distance to a bottom of the heating chamber and facing a top side opposite of the bottom of the ...