US Patent Issued to University of Maryland, College Park on Aug. 4 for "Systems, methods and indicator materials for assessing reduction state in soils" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,080, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Md.).

"Systems, methods and indicator materials for assessing reduction state in soils" was invented by Martin C. Rabenhorst (University Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates an indicator system for assessing a reduction state of unconsolidated material that includes a delivery tube defining an interior chamber, and a substrate disposed within the interior chamber and including a reactive coating thereon. The reactive coating is at least partially removable from the substrate upon exposure to a reducing condition...