ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,313, issued on July 22, was assigned to Reliance Worldwide Corp. (Atlanta).

"Plumbing assembly with a swivel adapter and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Jun Wu (Zhejiang, China), Haiming Liu (Zhejiang, China), Michael John Kornegay (Marietta, Ga.) and Clayton Pierce Boardman IV (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hose assembly for use with a tankless water heater. The hose assembly includes a flexible hose, a first connector assembly, and a second connector assembly. The first connector assembly is fluidly coupled with the flexible hose and includes a first fitting. The first fitting is rotatably coupled with ...