ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,002, issued on July 14.
"Composite product formed of coffee grounds" was invented by Calan Philbrook (Sandwich, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a composite product with spent coffee grounds, having steps of: acquiring spent coffee grounds; pre-drying the spent coffee grounds; drying the spent grounds that have been pre-dried, to form base material; organizing the base material by size; forming base products from the base material, including a resin product and a hardener product; forming a mixed product from the base products; and forming a final product from the mixed product, wherein the final product...