US Patent Issued to NATIONAL MACHINE on June 23 for "Hot water tank and flow through heating assembly" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,181, issued on June 23, was assigned to NATIONAL MACHINE COMPANY (Stow, Ohio).

"Hot water tank and flow through heating assembly" was invented by Ronald Shaffer (Stow, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water heater includes a hollow body having an inlet and an outlet, a heating element arranged within the hollow body, a cavity formed between a heating surface of the heating element and an interior surface of the hollow body, an outlet tube, and an adapter sleeve. The outlet tube extends externally from the outlet of the hollow body towards the inlet of the hollow body for depositing heated fluid within the fluid tank, wherein the...