ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 13 -- A.O. Smith, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,094,592, initially filed Oct. 25, 2016) developed by four co-inventors for a "water heater with thermal break." The co-inventors are John Robert Lowdermilk, Bristol, Tennessee, Donald Irvin Pridemore Jr., Jonesborough, Tennessee, Bradley S. Yon, Kingsport, Tennessee, and Steven Lawrence Tilson, Erwin, Tennessee.

The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/n . . .