ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,934, issued on April 7, was assigned to Rheem Australia PTY Ltd. (Rydalmere, Australia).
"Water heater controller" was invented by Brendan Bourke (Rydalme, Australia), Yue-Xin Peng (Rydalme, Australia) and Lee Kernich (Rydalme, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for an electric booster element in a water heater is described. The electric booster element is powered from mains power and the controller comprises a control module and a capacitive module adapted to store power and supply stored power to the control module. The control module produces a control signal for controlling a relay to supply or restrict mains p...