ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,091, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to King Technology Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Reduction of cyanuric acid in a body of recreational water" was invented by David Guy (Maple Grove, Minn.), Lyle Enderson (Anoka, Minn.) and Brett Libby (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reducing the cyanuric acid in a body of recreational water by adding an algaecide such as metal ions to the body of recreational water before reducing the chlorine content in the body of recreational water followed by adding a cyanuric acid reducing agent to the body of recreational water to generate byproducts where the addition of chlorine can be...