US Patent Issued to Quooker International on Sept. 15 for "Water supply device" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,309, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Quooker International B.V. (Ridderkerk, Netherlands).

"Water supply device" was invented by Niels Theodoor Peteri (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Jan Oosting (Ridderkerk, Netherlands) and Laurens Gillis Jacobus De Rijke (Dordrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water supply device for supplying water for consumption includes a hot-water tank and a pipeline for conveying water with a temperature below 65deg C. to a draw-off point. The water supply device further includes an inlet valve configured for allowing or blocking inflow of fresh water into the hot-water tank feed, a return pip...