ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,293, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Intellihot Inc. (Galesburg, Ill.).

"Heating system" was invented by Sridhar Deivasigamani (Peoria, Ill.) and Sivaprasad Akasam (Dunlap, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating system including a water conductor, a valve configured to cooperate with a fluid moving device which together operable to selectively circulate a heat transfer fluid in at least one of a first fluid circuit and a second fluid circuit, a heat exchanger and a blower operable to supply a stream of fluid over the heat exchanger, wherein the heat exchanger is fluidly connected to the first fluid circuit, wherein the heat...