ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,535, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Rockwool A/S (Hedehusene, Denmark).
"Method of growing plants" was invented by Frank Hendrikus Peter Janssen (Hedehusene, Denmark), Dorte Bartnik Johansson (Hedehusene, Denmark) and Miroslav Nikolic (Hedehusene, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of growing plants in a coherent growth substrate product is provided and includes: providing at least one coherent growth substrate product comprising man-made vitreous fibres (MMVF) bonded with a cured aqueous binder composition; positioning one or more seeds, seedlings, cuttings or plants in contact with the growth substrate product; and i...