US Patent Issued to Rheem Manufacturing on Dec. 9 for "Water tank with thermally insulating partition" (Connecticut, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,842, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Rheem Manufacturing Co. (Atlanta).

"Water tank with thermally insulating partition" was invented by Harsha Satyanarayana (Norwalk, Conn.), Christopher M. Hayden (Shelton, Conn.) and Abigail McMonigal (Wyoming, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology includes a liquid storage tank having a heating element, an inlet for receiving unheated liquid, an outlet for outputting heated liquid, and a partition configured to divide the tank into a first portion and a second portion. The partition can have an aperture such that the first portion and the second portion are in fluid communi...