Patents Examined by Wayne A. Langel
  • Patent number: 11571726
    Abstract: Provided is a method for disposing of contaminated deposit soil and recycled reclamation soil using the same and, more specifically, a method for disposing of contaminated dredged soil, the method comprising the steps of: seeding a mixed strain NIX51 (KACC81038BP) in the contaminated dredged soil to primarily dispose of contaminated materials in a bioreactor; and washing the degraded soil, which has been primarily disposed of, with a washing solution containing at least one selected from the group consisting of citric acid, oxalate, carbonic acid (H2CO3), and nitric acid, to secondarily dispose of heavy metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignees: KOREA MARINE ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sang-Seob Lee, Man Jang
  • Patent number: 11566211
    Abstract: According to present disclosure, there is disclosed an algae growth and cultivation system that provides a cost-efficient means of producing algae biomass as feedstock for algae-based products, such as, fertilizer, feed, biofuel manufacture, and desirably impacts, nutrient recovery from waste streams for valued byproducts production, recycle water, and alternative/renewable energy production. The system as discussed herein is an integrated systems approach to wastewater treatment, algal strains selection for byproducts production, and recycle of algal biomass-processing waste or additional algae harvested as feedstock for products such as fertilizer production. Embodiments of a system as discussed herein present an economically viable algae production system and process that allows algae-derived products such as fertilizer, feed, biofuels, etc. to compete with non-organic or petroleum products in the marketplace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: GSR Solutions, LLC
    Inventor: Anju D. Krivov
  • Patent number: 11564363
    Abstract: A method is disclosed of in-situ retention and buffering of an amount of water in soil to support the growth of an agricultural crop. The method comprises the step of adding an effective amount of a hydrogel material as a water retention agent during planting of seed in the soil. The hydrogel material including an insoluble, cross-linked carboxymethyl cellulose. Once penetration of water into the soil is allowed after the planting of seed, a proportion of the water which penetrates the soil is absorbed by the hydrogel material and, over time, the absorbed water is released by diffusion into the soil to support the growth of the agricultural crop. Also disclosed is the hydrogel material which comprises said carboxymethyl cellulose which has been cross-linked with a cross-linking polymer from the group consisting of: an amine monomer; an amide monomer; and an amine-amide co-polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventor: Vagner Jorden
  • Patent number: 11560342
    Abstract: Microbial compositions for application to plants, plant parts and plant seeds are provided for improvement of plant yield and/or other beneficial plant traits. Methods of making and applying microbial compositions or formulations to plants, plant parts or plant seeds or to growth media are further provided to increase or improve plant yield and/or other beneficial plant traits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: Linda L. Lutfiyya, Ryan T. McCann, Scott R. Schaecher
  • Patent number: 11559786
    Abstract: An oxygen storage material including a ceria-zirconia based composite oxide containing a composite oxide of ceria and zirconia, wherein the ceria-zirconia based composite oxide comprises at least one rare-earth element selected from the group consisting of lanthanum, yttrium, and neodymium, and an amount of the rare-earth element(s) contained in total is 1 to 10% by atom in terms of element relative to a total amount of cerium and zirconium in the ceria-zirconia based composite oxide, 60 to 85% by atom of the entire amount of the rare-earth element(s) is contained in a near-surface upper-layer region extending from a surface of each primary particle of the ceria-zirconia based composite oxide to a depth of 50 nm in the primary particle, and 15 to 40% by atom of the entire amount of the rare-earth element(s) is contained in a near-surface lower-layer region extending from a depth of 50 nm to a depth of 100 nm in the primary particle, a content ratio of cerium and zirconium in the ceria-zirconia based compos
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Morikawa, Masahide Miura, Nobuyuki Takagi
  • Patent number: 11560339
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides novel compositions and methods of forming those compositions by complexing a micronutrient with at least two organic acids, preferably in the presence of a base to form an aqueous formulation. Compositions comprising the complexed micronutrient are tank mix compatible and can be used to deliver a water-soluble source of the particular micronutrient to plants (e.g., corn plants), with foliar application being particularly preferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Koch Agronomie Services, LLC
    Inventors: Robert A. Geiger, Ithamar Prada, Elliott Martin, Raju Khatiwada
  • Patent number: 11554997
    Abstract: Disclosed are compositions and methods of making a liquid fertilizer additive solution of polymeric and/or oligomeric heterocyclic nitrogen containing nitrification inhibitors comprising a non-aqueous polar, aprotic organo liquid (NAPAOL) as the reaction medium for the reaction of aldehyde(s) with heterocyclic nitrogen containing nitrification inhibitors that have one or more aldehyde reactive groups selected from the group consisting of a) primary, b) secondary amines, c) amides, d) thiols, e) hydroxyls and f) phenols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Inventors: Gary David McKnight, Randall Linwood Rayborn
  • Patent number: 11548833
    Abstract: A method of formulating novel humic material is disclosed comprising mixing one or more portions of Dimethylphenylpiperazinium (DMPP) with one or more portions of N—(N-butyl) thiophosphoric triamide (NBPT) with one or more portions of Isobutylidene-diurea (IBDU) with one or more portions of Polyaspartic Acid with one or more portions of Chitosan and a portion of Mycorrhizae and Rhizobia to form a portion of biostimulant material; obtaining a portion of seaweed harvest and crushing and drying said portion of seaweed to form a portion of seaweed powder; Obtaining a portion of leonardite and crushing said portion of leonardite to form a portion of humic raw material; mixing one or more portion of animal manure with one or more portion of stover with one or more portion of organic waste to form a portion of compositing mix and composting said compositing mix to form a portion of composted product; obtaining a portion of plant waste and subjecting said portion of plant waste through an anaerobic combustion to form
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventors: Michael J. Meyer, Timothy J. Strosnider, Charles E. Christmann, Craig White
  • Patent number: 11542211
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides novel agricultural microbial inoculant compositions for uses in promoting plant growth, plant productivity and/or soil quality. The novel microbial inoculant compositions comprise one or more microbial species, one or more urease inhibitors and/or one or more nitrification inhibitors. The present disclosure also provides fertilizer compositions comprising said microbial inoculant compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Koch Agronomie Services, LLC
    Inventors: Drew R. Bobeck, Cedric J. Pearce
  • Patent number: 11542212
    Abstract: A combined microalgae and mycorrhizal fungi granular formulation includes a microalgae inoculant combined with a mycorrhizal fungi inoculant with demineralized water to maintain moisture and applied to carrier granules such as a natural clay-based or mineral-based material. The coated granules are dried and may be applied to agricultural areas in dried granular form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: AlgaEnergy N.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Debabrata Sarkar, Ronak Satishchandra Chhaya, Lokesh Singh, Douglas Ry Wagner
  • Patent number: 11542213
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coated granular fertilizer, preferably wherein granules are sulfate-based or phosphate-based. When sulfate-based granules, as in ammonium sulfate, the coating substance is an inorganic salt of alkaline earth elements, preferably calcium, such that when applied to the surface of fertilizers, forms calcium sulfate, preferably a calcium sulfate-dihydrate, as a protective coating. For a reactive coating of a thiosulfate, free sulfuric acid present on the granule reacts to provide an elemental sulfur coating. For ammonium phosphate-based granules, coatings may comprise compounds of Ca++, Al+++ and/or Fe+++ salts thereby forming a calcium, an aluminum, an iron, or mixed cation phosphate protective coating. Thiosulfate is also effective with phosphate-based granules which are manufactured with sulfuric acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Anuvia Plant Nutrients IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Sanford A. Siegel, Jeffrey C. Burnham
  • Patent number: 11530169
    Abstract: A plant nutrient composition comprises both fertilizer and microorganisms bound together so that the advantages of fertilizer and microorganisms for plant growth and soil health can be obtained by a one-step administration of the plant nutrient composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Bio-Soil Enhancers, Inc.
    Inventors: Nolan Wayne Wade, Janiece McWilliams, Charles Grantham, H. Randall Smith, Louis H. Elwell, III
  • Patent number: 11518720
    Abstract: The present invention relates to organic nitrogen fertilizers and methods for producing organic nitrogen fertilizers, including retrieving high concentration organic ammonia from discarded organic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventor: Timothy Stemwedel
  • Patent number: 11517854
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a diesel oxidation catalyst comprising a substrate and a wash-coat comprising a first layer and a second layer, wherein the substrate has a substrate length, a front end and a rear end, the washcoat comprising the first layer comprising a first metal oxide and comprising a platinum group metal supported on a metal oxide support material; the second layer comprising a second metal oxide and comprising one or more of an oxidic compound of vanadium, an oxidic compound of tungsten and a zeolitic material comprising one or more of Fe and Cu; wherein the first layer is at least partially disposed directly on the substrate, or is at least partially disposed directly on an intermediate layer which is disposed directly on the substrate over the entire length of the substrate, on x % of the length of the substrate from the front end of the substrate, and wherein the second layer is at least partially disposed directly on the substrate, or is at least partially disposed directly on the i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Dorner, Martin Kalwei
  • Patent number: 11518721
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mixture comprising: a) a first liquid composition comprising a culture of microalgae, the microalgae comprising whole pasteurized Chlorella cells; and b) a second liquid composition comprising a culture of microalgae, the microalgae comprising lysed pasteurized Chlorella cells; wherein a combination of the first liquid composition and the second liquid composition exhibits synergy. Also provided is a method of treating a plant, a plant part, or the locus surrounding the plant to enhance plant growth, the method comprising applying an effective amount of the mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: HELIAE DEVELOPMENT, LLC
    Inventors: Chiliang Chen, Edgard Jauregui, Alexander Sitek, Stephen Ventre, Karl Wyant
  • Patent number: 11512028
    Abstract: A method for the biological treatment of organic waste containing impurities consisting of non-biodegradable materials, including: • a first step of wet mechanical separation of the non-biodegradable materials present in the abovementioned organic waste in order to obtain a purified organic fraction, • a second step of dehydrating the purified organic fraction in order to obtain a dehydrated purified organic fraction and an effluent, • a third step of dry anaerobic biological treatment of the dehydrated organic fraction in order to obtain organic residues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SUEZ GROUPE
    Inventors: Arnaud Sommain, Jean-Luc Martel
  • Patent number: 11512029
    Abstract: A multipurpose fertilizer composition comprising an after incubation mixture, a moisturizing ingredient, and a ylang ylang extract ingredients; wherein, the ylang ylang extract ingredients from fresh ylang ylang flowers that can be chopped/or not shredded and soaked in a liquid such as water or solvent for a long time to extract the necessary compound components from the infused ylang ylang flowers into the liquid; wherein, the ylang ylang extract ingredients containing at least 0.05% by weight of a cinnamyl acetate. Besides, the present invention is to provide a process of manufacturing the multipurpose fertilizer composition using ingredients source material from mixing a manure ingredient with a poultry manure ingredient, and an organic waste ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: VIET NAM HIGH TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Thanh Chi Le
  • Patent number: 11505509
    Abstract: An agricultural additive composition is used to improve soil health. The agricultural additive composition improves the % biomass of soil and reduce perchlorates. The agricultural additive composition is used to treat soil and/or irrigation water used for growing plants. The agricultural additive composition includes water, willow bark, nitrogen, citric acid, corn steep and Yucca extract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Inventor: Larry D. Mohr
  • Patent number: 11505511
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a formulation F for reducing nitrification. The present invention also relates to a formulation F obtainable by the process of the invention. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a process of preparing a fertilizer-nitrification inhibitor mixture, and to a fertilizer-nitrification inhibitor mixture obtainable by this process. Moreover, the present invention relates to a method of fertilizing agricultural soil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Karl-Heinrich Schneider, Gregor Pasda, Wolfram Zerulla, Markus Schmid, Daniella Lohe, Alexander Wissemeier, Maarten Staal, Barbara Nave, Claudia Klodwig
  • Patent number: 11498885
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel nitrification inhibitors of formula (I), which are pyrazole propargyl ether compounds. Moreover, the invention relates to the use of compounds of formula (I) as nitrification inhibitors, i.e. for reducing nitrification, as well as agrochemical mixtures and compositions comprising the nitrification inhibitors of formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Peter Nesvadba, Allan F. Cunningham, Shrirang Hindalekar, Tejas Pothi, Barbara Nave, Olof Wallquist, Alexander Wissemeier