US Patent Issued to Terraforma International on Sept. 9 for "Methods and systems for increasing soil fertility" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,582, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Terraforma International Inc. (Lagunitas, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for increasing soil fertility" was invented by Cooper A. Scarbrough (Lagunitas, Calif.) and Miles G. Sorel (San Anselmo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for increasing the fertility of a soil at a soil location include assessing a parameter of the soil, aerobically culturing a feedstock based on the assessment, generating a soil fertility composition from the cultured feedstock, and applying the soil fertility composition. The assessing can include measuring a biological parameter of the soil, a non-biologica...