ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,732, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOKUYAMA Corp. (Yamaguchi, Japan).

"Method for producing halogen oxyacid solution" was invented by Takayuki Negishi (Yamaguchi, Japan), Takafumi Shimoda (Yamaguchi, Japan), Akihiro Saito (Yamaguchi, Japan), Naoki Matsuda (Yamaguchi, Japan) and Masayuki Moriwaki (Yamaguchi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing halogen oxyacid, which includes a step of continuously supplying and mixing an organic alkali solution and a halogen and continuously collecting a reaction solution containing halogen oxyacid, and an production apparatus of halogen oxyacid, which includes a reactor, ...