ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,611, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Ag Leader Technology (Ames, Iowa).
"Dual seed meter and related systems and methods" was invented by Brett Buehler (Dallas Center, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are various embodiments of dual seed meters having a metering housing having first and second seed disks with a plurality of openings arranged along a curved path of each disk, wherein the disks overlap to form a convergence region such that seed traveling along the curved paths is delivered to a single point. Certain implementations also have a vacuum chamber defined between a first wall of the metering housing a...