ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,663, issued on March 25, was assigned to 360 YIELD CENTER LLC (Morton, Ill.).
"Crop input application systems and apparatus" was invented by Talon Sauder (Green Valley, Ill.), Justin L. Koch (Morton, Ill.), Gregg A. Sauder (Tremont, Ill.) and Tim Sauder (Tremont, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Crop input application systems, methods and apparatus are provided. In some examples, a blade is disposed to remove soil from a trench sidewall and deposit soil on top of a seed in the trench."
The patent was filed on Feb. 14, 2020, under Application No. 17/426,730.
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