ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,669, issued on July 8.
"Soil probe assembly having a multifaceted probe wheel" was invented by Jeffrey L. Royer (Neola, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soil probe assembly includes a frame member and a wheel rotatably coupled to the frame member. The wheel includes one or more soil probes that, as the wheel rotates against the earth, the weight of the soil probe assembly drives the soil probes into the earth. The wheel is configured to have at least two planar edges such that, as the wheel rolls onto one of the at least two planar edges, a slamming effect occurs due to the planar edge impacting against the ground, thus causing a...