ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,175, issued on July 22.
"Row cleaner and row closer assemblies for strip till planters" was invented by Ronald Steve Martin (Elkton, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A row cleaner connected to a strip till machine clears mulch and other debris in strip or low till planting. A row cleaner frame assembly includes a pair of row cleaner arms and a pair of clearing wheels having toe-in alignment. The pair of row cleaner arms share a common plane and are pivotally connected at a pair of pivot points common or close to the rotational axis of a cutting disc. The cutting disc is disposed intermediate the pair of row cleaner arms. The row cl...