ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,848, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to J.M. Huber Corp. (Atlanta).

"Methods for the continuous polymerization of phosphate compounds to form polyphosphate compositions" was invented by Yue Liu (Marietta, Ga.), Aleksey Isarov (Kennesaw, Ga.), Robin Brumby Helms (Ranger, Ga.), Yann Charlotte Bourgeois (Nivelles, Belgium), James Scott Thomas (Cumming, Ga.), Christopher Lamar Duck (Canton, Ga.) and Patrick Christopher Farrell (Cartersville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Polyphosphate compositions are produced by a process that includes the steps of continuously introducing a phosphate compound into a polymerization vessel, polymeri...