US Patent Issued to Ten Cate Thiolon on July 14 for "Natural artificial turf infill" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,236, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ten Cate Thiolon B.V. (Nijverdal, Netherlands).

"Natural artificial turf infill" was invented by Salil Sethunath (Nijverdal, Netherlands), Niels Gerhardus Kolkman (Nijverdal, Netherlands), Colin Young (Nijverdal, Netherlands), Michael Rene Vogel (Nijverdal, Netherlands) and Hein Anton Heerink (Nijverdal, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a natural binder-based infill for artificial turf having biodegradable granules. The granules have a natural binder that has been physically but not chemically modified by the addition of a quantity of filler material, and the granul...