ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,003, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Tank and water heater" was invented by Shigeru Iijima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tank according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a tank main body that is disposed along a center axis, and that stores a liquid on an inside thereof; an inflow pipe having an inflow opening that opens to the inside of the tank main body; an outflow pipe having an outflow opening that opens to the inside of the tank main body, and a trapping material that is located on the inside of the tank main body, wherein the trapping material is separately disp...