US Patent Issued on July 8 for "Ready to use grow bags and methods of making and using the same" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,639, issued on July 8.

"Ready to use grow bags and methods of making and using the same" was invented by Douglas Daniel Fear (Winnetka, Ill.) and Richard W. North (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elongated bag for use as a ready-to-use grow bag. The bag is manufactured as an elongated plastic body with a sealed bottom and a sealable top. The bag includes one or more gussets defined by folds in the bag and a score line for a tear strip in an area sufficiently below the top and above the fill material to allow the bag to lie flat for transportation and deploy into a cylinder for planting. The bag includes drain holes near the ...