ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,657, issued on March 24, was assigned to NORTIZ Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Water heater with wireless communication part" was invented by Daisuke Hirota (Akashi, Japan) and Hiroshi Yokoyama (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water heater performs short-range wireless communication with an external device such as a mobile communication terminal in a manner that automatically authenticates the external device to be connected in response to establishment of communication connection. The transmission output of short-range wireless communication from the water heater is set to first output before establishment of communication co...