ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,530, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to 360 YIELD CENTER LLC (Morton, Ill.).

"Systems, methods, and apparatus for placement of starter fertilizer" was invented by Talon Sauder (Green Valley, Ill.), Justin Koch (Morton, Ill.), Timothy Sauder (Tremont, Ill.), Stephen Ramp (Peoria, Ill.), Andrew Dornbier (Garner, Iowa), Jesse D. Kaiser (Tremont, Ill.) and Gregg A. Sauder (Tremont, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and an apparatus for distributing starter fertilizer during the planting process. In an embodiment, a starter fertilizer system is configured to apply fertilizer to a planted seed during a planting proces...