ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,075, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Water softening device" was invented by Noriyoshi Ueya (Osaka, Japan), Mai Saito (Osaka, Japan) and Yasunari Maeda (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water softening device includes an electrolysis device, a first circulation flow path and a second circulation flow path, a first sensor, a second sensor, and a controller, wherein the controller controls the electrolysis device to execute a first mode in which the alkaline water is allowed to flow through the first circulation flow path and the acidic water is allow...