US Patent Issued to PROFILE PRODUCTS on July 29 for "Bark and wood fiber growing medium" (Tennessee, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,392, issued on July 29, was assigned to PROFILE PRODUCTS LLC (Buffalo Grove, Ill.).

"Bark and wood fiber growing medium" 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 method for making a growing medium includes a step of combining tree bark and/or wood components together to form an initial composition; heating the initial composition to a temperature greater than about 149deg C. under steam in a pressurized vessel; processing the initial composition through a refiner with a plurality of opposing disks to obtain the fibrous growing medium, the refiner...