ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,345, issued on May 19, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"System and method for providing domestic hot water and/or space heating within a building, and a removable cover of a storage vessel" was invented by James Freeman (Livingston, Great Britain), Georgeanna Kawaley (Livingston, Great Britain) and Christopher Olkis (Livingston, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing domestic hot water and/or space heating within a building. The system comprises at least one storage vessel comprising a removable cover, wherein an internal volume of the storage vessel is fluidly connected to a ...