US Patent Issued to GrndUp on July 15 for "System, apparatus and methods for estimating the amount of nutrients released from environmentally-friendly wear material" (Colorado, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,943, issued on July 15, was assigned to GrndUp LLC (Denver).

"System, apparatus and methods for estimating the amount of nutrients released from environmentally-friendly wear material" was invented by Thomas Besford Bogle (Bozeman, Mont.) and Eugene F. Kelly (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, apparatus, articles of manufacture and methods useful for determining an approximate amount of one or more ingredients of wear material released from the wear portion of an item that wears during use of the item involve the use of a material release tracker that is associated with the wear portion and which can be used to est...