US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Oct. 21 for "System for assessing a microbial characteristic within a growing medium and associated methods" (Arizona, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,599, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"System for assessing a microbial characteristic within a growing medium and associated methods" was invented by Rahim Rahimi (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Jose Waimin (Gilbert, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for assessing a microbial characteristic within a growing medium. Such a system assesses one or more microbial characteristics, such as biomass and/or microbial activity, within a growing medium, such as soil. Electrical properties of a microbially degradable material in contact with the growing medium are measured. ...