Patents Examined by Jennifer Smith
  • Patent number: 11155504
    Abstract: A combination organic fertilizer product provides, based on variable mixtures discussed herein, varying levels of bioavailable nitrogen, suitable for different types of plants having different nitrogen uptake rates. A process for production of a combination organic fertilizer includes combining poultry manure, soybean meal and guano to create a homogeneous combination, and processing the homogeneous combination. Heating, screening and cooling operations are also presented, for inclusion into the process for production disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: True Organic Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Jacob Matthew Evans
  • Patent number: 11148982
    Abstract: Reaction products and methods for making and using the same are provided. In at least one specific embodiment, the fertilizer can include a nitrogen source comprising urea, ammonia, ammonium nitrate, or any combination thereof and a reaction product of formaldehyde, an ammonia source, and a nitrification inhibitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Koch Agronomic Services, LLC
    Inventors: Kurt D. Gabrielson, Mary L. Epling
  • Patent number: 11148981
    Abstract: A biologically active compost is manufactured using a sterile commodity compost, a set of cultures and inoculants, and a disbursed portion of an earlier biologically active compost. The biologically active compost is manufactured from the sterile commodity compost, infusing it with the cultures and inoculants, and combining it with the disbursed portion of an earlier biologically active compost. The resultant biologically active compost includes a compost substrate suitable for growing biological material, and a microbiome permeating the substrate, the microbiome having a collection of microfauna with a wide biological diversity or other statistical variance. The microbiome includes archaea, aerobic or anaerobic bacteria, amoebae or protozoa, fungi, nematodes, microarthopods, or plant or animal fragments, well in excess of amounts that can survive the thermophilic process for producing the commodity compost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SymSoil
    Inventor: Elizabeth Pearce
  • Patent number: 11136505
    Abstract: Disclosed is a potassium humate sulfur compound granule and process for making the same granule. The potassium humate sulfur compound granule including a potassium humate component and an elemental sulfur component at a ratio of about 1:20; where the potassium humate component of the granule fully solubilizes upon application to a desired site and enhances conversion of the sulfur component into sulfate by at least about 15% as compared to elemental sulfur alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventor: Kevin Merritt
  • Patent number: 11136275
    Abstract: A potassium humate, rock phosphorous, sulfur granule: a fully soluble potassium humate component comprising about 3% of the composite granule; a sulfur component comprising about 15% of the composite granule; and a rock phosphate powder component comprising about 82% of the composite granule. The composite granule is semi-soluble and has a pH of 2.5 to about 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventor: Kevin Merritt
  • Patent number: 11130717
    Abstract: Reaction products and methods for making and using such reaction products are provided. For example, a reaction product comprising an adduct formed from urea, formaldehyde, and a urease inhibitor is described, which can be provided in various forms. For example, such a reaction product can be in the form of a solid or solution. Such a reaction product can also be combined with one or more additional components, including but not limited to, additional urease inhibitor and/or a nitrogen-based fertilizer composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Koch Agronomie Services, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Barr, Ethel Garnier, Kwame Owusu-Adom
  • Patent number: 11124462
    Abstract: Compositions include dicyandiamide (DCD), N—(N-butyl) Thiophosphoric Triamide (NBPT), and styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer in a solution. Agricultural fertilizer compositions contain the DCD, NBPT and styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer composition in combination with a fertilizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Hocking International Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Hocking, Robert Munion
  • Patent number: 11117842
    Abstract: Encapsulated seeds, processes for making encapsulated seeds and processes for establishing and improving seed beds and seed bed germination. The encapsulated seeds improve soil productivity through enhancements in soil fertility, soil condition/tilth, and control of soil moisture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Inventor: Michael Krysiak
  • Patent number: 11117840
    Abstract: A semi-soluble composite granule may include a homogenous powder including a rock phosphate powder making up about 1.0% to about 99% of the homogenous powder and a hydrolyzed humic acid enriched powder making up about 0.05% to about 25% of the homogenous powder; where the homogenous powder is granulated to form a semi-soluble composite granule; and where the composite granule is between about 0.8 mm and about 4.0 mm in diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Inventor: Kevin Merritt
  • Patent number: 11111186
    Abstract: This invention refers to an acid composition containing leonardite, amino acids and surfactants for use as fertiliser, biostimulant and/or nutrient and to a procedure for obtaining this composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SIPCAM INAGRA, S.A.
    Inventor: Gianluca Valieri
  • Patent number: 11104619
    Abstract: The invention relates to a synergistic mixture of urease inhibitor and nitrification inhibitor for the treatment of urea-containing fertilizers, more particularly having an improved urease-inhibitory effect, to the use thereof, and to urea-containing fertilizers comprising said mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: EuroChem Agro GmbH
    Inventors: Nils Peters, Thomas Mannheim
  • Patent number: 11104618
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, disclosed herein is a fertilizer core and fertilizer granule and methods related thereto. The fertilizer core particle has an outer surface and comprising one or more fertilizer additives, one or more binders, and one or more pH buffering agents, and wherein the fertilizer core particle comprises from about 10 wt % to about 99 wt % of the one or more binders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Sabeshan Kanagalingam, Ravi Hegde, Madduri Srinivasarao, Rajamalleswaramma Koripelly, Samik Gupta, Nilkamal Bag, Satish Burla, Yoganand Gurumallappa
  • Patent number: 11097989
    Abstract: A combined fertilizer and humics soluble granule is provided that includes at least soluble fertilizer particles admixed with a plurality of humic particles without a binder. A combined fertilizer and humics soluble granule is also provided that includes at least one soluble fertilizer-rich domain fused to at least one humic-rich domain. A process of forming a combined fertilizer and humics soluble granule is provided that includes forming a mixture of particles of soluble fertilizer and humics, the particles of urea each having a urea particle surface. The soluble fertilizer particle surface is tackified in contact with the particles of humics to create adherence between the soluble fertilizer particle surface and the particle of humics to form a granule without resort to a binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: The Andersons Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph Schumski
  • Patent number: 11091393
    Abstract: The present invention involves a granular product to remove oil and grease from oily waste water; specifically targeting produced/flow-back water generated in the offshore oilfield industry. This granular product may be loaded into either filter media canisters or bulk filtration vessels and used onsite to filter the water. This invention may also be used as a pre-treatment step to other polishing filter systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Oil-Dri Corporation of America
    Inventor: Laura Kajita
  • Patent number: 11091404
    Abstract: Methods of forming a fertilizer composition having slow-release nitrogen compounds with a molten process are disclosed. The methods include mixing of a crystalline polyethylene wax with urea and formaldehyde to form a molten methylene urea mixture. The contents of the molten methylene urea mixture react to form slow-release nitrogen compounds. Fertilizer compositions formed of or including the slow-release nitrogen compounds are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: OMS Investments, Inc.
    Inventor: Harold E. Thompson
  • Patent number: 11072567
    Abstract: The invention relates to a solid, particulate, urea-based blend composition comprising a urea-based compound in particulate form, one or more components in particulate form, selected from the group of nitrates, phosphates, sulphates and chlorides, and a urease inhibitor of the type phosphoric triamide, in particular N-(n-butyl) thiophosphoric triamide (nBTPT), wherein the urea-based blend composition is further characterized in that it comprises one or more reactive alkaline or alkaline-forming inorganic or organic compounds. The composition according to the invention has been stabilized against the degradation of a urease inhibitor of the type phosphoric triamide, in particular N-(n-butyl) thiophosphoric triamide (nBTPT). The invention further relates to a method for the manufacture of the claimed solid, particulate, urea-based blend composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: YARA INTERNATIONAL ASA
    Inventors: Francois Ledoux, Filip Colpaert, Ruud Van Belzen
  • Patent number: 11072555
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass member in which an inorganic phosphor is dispersed in a glass matrix, in which the glass member includes an SiO2—B2O3 based glass as the glass matrix, and the SiO2—B2O3 based glass includes SiO2 as a main component thereof, and includes, based on a total amount of the SiO2—B2O3 based glass: Al2O3 in an amount of 4 to 10 wt %; and MgO and ZnO in a total amount of 0.1 to 0.7 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: COORSTEK KK
    Inventors: Ramesh Vallepu, Yu Yokoyama, Mitsuhiro Fujita, Masako Uematsu, Yukiko Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11066342
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, disclosed herein is a fertilizer core and fertilizer granule and methods related thereto. The fertilizer core particle has an outer surface and comprising one or more fertilizer additives, one or more binders, and one or more pH buffering agents, and wherein the fertilizer core particle comprises from about 10 wt % to about 99 wt % of the one or more binders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Sabeshan Kanagalingam, Ravi Hegde, Madduri Srinivasarao, Rajamalleswaramma Koripelly, Samik Gupta, Nilkamal Bag, Satish Burla, Yoganand Gurumallappa
  • Patent number: 11059756
    Abstract: A method of forming a pelletized fertilizer includes combining a fertilizer material with an organic binder to form a wet mixture, and drying the wet mixture to form particles comprising the fertilizer material and the organic binder dispersed therein. The fertilizer material includes solid particles of langbeinite, and the organic binder includes at least one cellulose polymer in a solid phase or a liquid gel phase. The dried particles are coated with mineral oil to form coated particles. A pelletized fertilizer includes pellets comprising solid particles of langbeinite (and optionally, other fertilizer materials) interspersed with at least one cellulose polymer. A mineral oil coating is over the pellets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignees: Intrepid Potash, Inc., Enviro Tech Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Morrison, Kenneth G. Taylor, Stephen C. Bytnar, Elizabeth Paden
  • Patent number: 11053170
    Abstract: The present application generally relates to a method for the manufacture of a liquid composition essentially consisting of an organic solvent of the type glycol and a urease inhibitor of the type phosphoric triamide and products obtained therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: YARA INTERNATIONAL ASA
    Inventors: Filip Colpaert, Francois Ledoux, Ruud Van Belzen