ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,085, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Water-using apparatus" was invented by Yoshihiro Nakayama (Tokyo), Tadashi Saito (Tokyo), Seiji Noda (Tokyo) and Masaru Takada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water-using apparatus includes a water-feeding unit configured to feed water, a water-treating unit connected to the water-feeding unit by a pipe and being configured to perform a function in which ionic substances contained in water fed from the water-feeding unit are removed by an electrical deionization unit, a water-using unit connected to the water-treating unit by a pipe and configured to us...