ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,479, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to OHMIQ INC. (North Charleston, S.C.).
"Ohmic heater with multiple operating states" was invented by Michael J. Wieckowski (Charleston, S.C.), Jeremiah M. Callahan (Sullivan's Island, S.C.) and Weston Scott Catron (Charleston, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ohmic heater has a structure (20) defining a flow path extending in a downstream direction (D), a first pair of electrodes (34a,34b) and a second pair of electrodes (36a,36b). The electrodes of each pair are adjacent one another in the downstream direction but spaced from one another in a direction perpendicular to the downstream directi...