Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. announced that it received a Notice of Allowance from the US Patent Office, indicating that it will issue a second patent on the company's third generation (3G) technology platform. The new patent was applied for in June 2017 as a continuation-in-part of the patent that was issued in October 2018, which became the first patent issued on the 3G tech platform. The new patent, when issued, will provide broadened protection for improvements to the technology platform that will enable naturally-occurring ammonium and bicarbonate in the waste stream to be captured, separated, distilled, precipitated and concentrated into a solid (crystal) ammonium bicarbonate, a water-soluble, readily-available nitrogen fertilizer product. Consumer demand, industry investors and environmental impacts are forcing the $200 billion animal protein industry into a more sustainable twenty-first century. Toxic algae blooms, dead zones and contaminated groundwater show the company cannot continue to fertilize half of America's crops with raw untreated manure. Cleanup is inevitable but comprehensive treatment will be expensive and require additional revenues to offset costs, with exporters especially vulnerable to increased costs not balanced by offsetting revenues. Bion's patented 3G treatment platform is designed to generate revenue from all aspects of the waste stream: maximizing coproduct and renewable energy (RE) values; generating verified nutrient and RE credits; as well as producing USDA-certified sustainably branded protein products (or other branding) that can command a premium to traditional commodity pricing.