US Patent Issued to NORITZ on July 21 for "Hot water supply system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,322, issued on July 21, was assigned to NORITZ Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Hot water supply system" was invented by Shinichi Okamoto (Hyogo, Japan) and Atsushi Ushio (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a hot water supply system in which each of multiple hot water suppliers communicatively connected in series by a communication line includes a first communication unit for communicating with another adjacent hot water supplier on the downstream side via the communication line and a second communication unit for communicating with another adjacent hot water supplier on the upstream side. The controller of each hot water...