US Patent Issued to Tessenderlo Group on June 17 for "Stabilized urea fertilizer compositions and methods for preparing same" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,002, issued on June 17, was assigned to Tessenderlo Group NV (Brussels).

"Stabilized urea fertilizer compositions and methods for preparing same" was invented by Michael Massoud Hojjatie (Tucson, Ariz.), Thomas David Fairweather (Dundee, Ore.), Jeroen Van Cauwenbergh (Baardegem, Belgium), Martijn Timmermans (Lommel, Belgium) and Heidi van den Rul (Genk, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided in the invention is a stabilized fertilizer composition (I) suitable for use in fertilizers and comprising: Urea (a), One or more compounds (b), One or more urease inhibitors (c1) and/or one or more nitrification inhibitors (c2), optiona...