ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,973, issued on June 17, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"On-demand water treatment system" was invented by Jake Christensen (Elk Grove, Calif.), Sondra Hellstrom (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Soo Kim (Fremont, Calif.), Michael Metzger (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Saravanan Kuppan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water treatment system centrally communicates and controls one or more water treatment devices to regulate the use of the one or more water treatment devices. The water treatment system is configured to enable a localized, on-demand supply of purified water throughout a building or a network o...