US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Advanced Potash Technologies on May 27 for "Potassium-releasing material" (Nevada, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,284, issued on May 27, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and Advanced Potash Technologies Ltd (Camana Bay, Cayman Islands).

"Potassium-releasing material" was invented by Davide Ciceri (Washoe Valley, Nev.), Marcelo de Oliveira (Boston), Antoine Allanore (Brentwood, N.H.), Dennis P. Chen (Boston) and Thomas C. Close (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure, in various embodiments, discloses hydrothermal methods, hydrothermally modified materials and dried hydrothermally modified materials. Certain dried hydrothermally modified materials can readily releases ionic s...