US Patent Issued to Rheem Manufacturing on June 3 for "Systems and devices for corrosion prevention and methods thereto" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,597, issued on June 3, was assigned to Rheem Manufacturing Co. (Atlanta).

"Systems and devices for corrosion prevention and methods thereto" was invented by Nathan O. Andrew (Notasulga, Ala.) and Colben T. Freeman (Notasulga, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides corrosion prevention devices comprising a sacrificial anode and a mass sensor and corrosion prevention devices comprising a controller in communication with the mass sensor and sacrificial anode. The controller can be configured to receive mass data to detect when the mass of the sacrificial anode has fallen below a predetermined threshold. Upon...