ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,298, issued on May 27, was assigned to Intellihot Inc. (Galesburg, Ill.).
"Failure mode determination means" was invented by Sridhar Deivasigamani (Mundelein, Ill.) and Sivaprasad Akasam (Round Rock, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a false reporting of a liquid level detection in a system including a container configured to hold a liquid to a first liquid level in the container, a heater disposed within the container, the heater configured to heat at least a portion of the liquid, a temperature sensor disposed above the heater within the container, the temperature sensor configured to sense the temperatu...