(December 21, 2016, 12:49 PM EST) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Findings by a patent examiner that a claimed method of operating a steam generator would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art were reversed Dec. 21 by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Ex parte John H. Chiu and George D. Mylchreest, No. 2015-002233, PTAB)....