ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,559, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NORITZ Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Hot water supplier monitoring system" was invented by Naoya Yoshida (Hyogo, Japan), Toshihiko Hamagami (Hyogo, Japan), Kazuhiro Nishimura (Hyogo, Japan) and Hisataka Hayase (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot water supplier monitoring system includes a monitoring server monitoring hot water suppliers via a communication network. The hot water supplier supplies hot water by adjusting temperature of hot water heated by a heat exchange unit using combustion heat from combustion operation. The monitoring server accumulates operation data of combustion op...