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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2022
Technology Licensing Corp., Cincinnati, OH (US);
Mark Heinlein, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Technology Licensing Corp., Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A root zone warming system () for an athletic field of natural turf () supplies positive pressurization to the root zone via a piping network () with openings. The system () enables control of the temperature of the supplied air by varying the flow resistance at an output end of a constant air supply source (), such as a positive displacement blower. By increasing the flow resistance at the output end of the blower (), with a variably controllable valve (), the operating temperature of the blower () increases and thereby causes a corresponding increase in the temperature of the air supplied therefrom. By varying the flow resistance a user can vary the temperature of the air supplied to the piping network () and to the root zone, thereby to control the amount of warming of the root zone so as to reduce the onset, degree, or duration of turf dormancy during the winter season.