ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,970, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Buckman Laboratories International Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Method for producing haloamines and haloamine solutions" was invented by Bruno Launay (Wasquehal, France), Dimitri Kuznetsov (Memphis, Tenn.) and Thomas McNeel (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a haloamine solution with reduced amounts of halogen oxyanions including (a) the on-site generation of a halogen-containing oxidant, such as a solution and (b) reacting on-site the halogen-containing oxidant with a nitrogen source, to thereby produce the haloamine solution."

The patent was filed on Sept. 25, 202...