US Patent Issued to Rheem Manufacturing on March 31 for "Systems and methods for monitoring makeup water for automated leak detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,711, issued on March 31, was assigned to Rheem Manufacturing Co. (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for monitoring makeup water for automated leak detection" was invented by Stephen Thomas Thurlkill (Newbury Park, Calif.), David Richard Baldwin (Ventura, Calif.) and Jorge Miguel Gamboa Revilla (Oxnard, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for automatically detecting a leak of a closed loop hydronic boiler system having a makeup water inlet line. The system may include a fluid flow sensor configured to sense fluid flow through the makeup water inlet line, and optionally a pressu...