ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,523, issued on April 14, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Water heater recovery time estimation" was invented by Craig Iung-Pei Tsai (Louisville, Ky.) and Paul Goodjohn (Crestwood, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a water heater appliance includes activating a heating element of the water heater, whereby a volume of water in a tank of the water heater is heated and measuring electrical power drawn by the heating element of the water heater appliance while the heating element is activated to heat the volume of water. The method also includes determining a tank depletion st...