US Patent Issued to Defuse Technologies on June 24 for "Desensitized fertilizer compositions and methods of making same" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,190, issued on June 24, was assigned to Defuse Technologies LLC (Mountain Brook, Ala.).

"Desensitized fertilizer compositions and methods of making same" was invented by Timothy Gene Holt (Florence, Ala.), Keith D. Cochran (Killen, Ala.), Matthew P. Spotswood (Birmingham, Ala.) and James Taylor Pursell Jr. (Mountain Brook, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides desensitized fertilizer compositions that are resistant to detonation. The desensitized fertilizer compositions of the present disclosure are formed, under heat, from a reaction product of a base fertilizer material, such as ammonium nitrate, and a...