US Patent Issued to PROFILE PRODUCTS on Aug. 5 for "Growing medium and mulch fiber opening apparatus" (Tennessee, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,703, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to PROFILE PRODUCTS LLC (Buffalo Grove, Ill.).

"Growing medium and mulch fiber opening apparatus" was invented by Kevin Scott Spittle (Vero Beach, Fla.) and Gary Lane Bowers (Jonesborough, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressed growing medium or mulch fiber opener comprising at least one set of adjacent rotating members, the rotating members having a surface and including at least one wire wound around at least a portion of the surface, wherein the wire includes a plurality of projections engaging compressed or partially opened growing medium or mulch fiber, and wherein a distance between...