US 12,264,114 B2
Rock fines as carriers of plant nutrients
Raju Khatiwada, Hagerstown, MD (US); and Daniel E Rardon, Greencastle, PA (US)
Assigned to Specialty Granules Investments LLC, Parsippany, NJ (US)
Filed by Specialty Granules Investments LLC, Parsippany, NJ (US)
Filed on Apr. 12, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/633,598.
Application 18/633,598 is a continuation of application No. 17/952,899, filed on Sep. 26, 2022, granted, now 11,987,536.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/287,590, filed on Dec. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0262764 A1, Aug. 8, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. C05G 1/00 (2006.01); C05B 7/00 (2006.01); C05C 5/04 (2006.01); C05D 1/02 (2006.01); C05D 9/02 (2006.01); C05F 11/02 (2006.01); C05G 5/12 (2020.01); C05G 5/14 (2020.01); C05G 5/40 (2020.01)
CPC C05G 1/00 (2013.01) [C05B 7/00 (2013.01); C05C 5/04 (2013.01); C05D 1/02 (2013.01); C05D 9/02 (2013.01); C05F 11/02 (2013.01); C05G 5/12 (2020.02); C05G 5/14 (2020.02); C05G 5/40 (2020.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A composition comprising:
rock fines comprising (1) at least one of basalt, metabasalt, or a combination thereof and (2) at least one of diabase, rhyolite, andesite, meta-andesite, granite, graphite, talc, perlite, or a combination thereof;
a material comprising B; and
a binder comprising at least one of seaweed, corn syrup, sucrose, molasses, soy protein isolate, soy protein hydrolysate, corn steep waste, or a combination thereof;
wherein (1) the at least one of basalt, metabasalt, or a combination thereof and (2) the at least one of diabase, rhyolite, andesite, meta-andesite, granite, graphite, talc, perlite, or a combination thereof are collectively present in the composition in an amount of 25 wt % to 95 wt % with respect to a total weight of the composition,
wherein the binder is present in the composition in an amount of 1 wt % to 5 wt % with respect to the total weight of the composition, and
wherein the material is present in the composition in an amount of 0.01 wt % to 25 wt % with respect to the total weight of the composition.