ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,052, issued on April 22, was assigned to SABIC AGRI-NUTRIENTS COMPANY (Jubail, Saudi Arabia).

"Acidified NP, PK, NPK fertilizer granules for fertigation" was invented by Mohamed Akasha M. Khaleel (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Hatim Dekhiel Aldekhiel (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solid acidic fertilizer granules, methods for producing the same, and methods for their use in fertigation, are disclosed. The solid acidic fertilizer granules include a plant nutrient and one or more inorganic acid distributed throughout the granules. The amount of the inorganic acid is sufficient to adjust the pH value of the fertigation ...