US Patent Issued to CHEMTREAT on April 29 for "Methods and systems for producing hypobromite by adding acid to reactants" (Nevada, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,346, issued on April 29, was assigned to CHEMTREAT INC. (Glen Allen, Va.).

"Methods and systems for producing hypobromite by adding acid to reactants" was invented by Oleh Weres (Reno, Nev.) and Chris Baron (Newark, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The reaction of sodium hypochlorite with sodium bromide is slow, and commonly only part of the bromide is converted to hypobromite. Methods to accelerate the reaction by adding a regulated amount of acid to a solution comprising bleach and bromide are provided, whereby the yield of hypobromite can be increased. The amount of acid added can be predetermined based on the content of a base ...