ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,507, issued on June 30.

"Method and system for water integrity control" was invented by James Shubat (Nepean, Canada), Els Vanbeckevoort (Nepean, Canada) and Ludo Feyen (Heusden-Zolder, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water integrity control and disinfection method and system that measures key water parameters and can diagnose water integrity instability trends that result in loss of water integrity. Relevant water parameters that are predictive of water integrity such as cell null value as measured by in-line colorimetry provide early warning and prediction of problematic trends in the water integrity so that the system can...