ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,135, issued on March 17, was assigned to FLUIDRA GROUP AUSTRALIA PTY LTD. (Smithfield NSW, Australia).

"Chlorinator synchronous rectification" was invented by Rod Briggs (Beaumaris, Australia), Frank Harris (Malvern East, Australia), Steve Fallon (Sassafras, Australia), Dime Risteski (Aintree, Australia) and Ethan Achterberg (Carrum Downs, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chlorinator system includes a swimming pool chlorinator configured to perform chlorination operations of a salt water pool system. The swimming pool chlorinator includes an electrolysis cell configured to receive a flow of pool water and to electrolyze so...