US Patent Issued to PREMIERE FERTILIZER SYSTEMS on July 15 for "Poultry litter-based fertilizer and a method for making the poultry litter-based fertilizer from poultry litter" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,849, issued on July 15, was assigned to PREMIERE FERTILIZER SYSTEMS LLC (Red Bay, Ala.).

"Poultry litter-based fertilizer and a method for making the poultry litter-based fertilizer from poultry litter" was invented by Arthur R. Shirley Jr. (Florence, Ala.) and Melissa C. Hayes (Florence, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a poultry litter-based fertilizer by a) supplying poultry litter to a rotating rotary drum, b) adding acid or a source of acid to the rotating rotary drum, wherein acid reacts with the poultry litter to form an acidified mixture, c) adding ammonia or a source of ammonia to the rotating rotar...