US Patent Issued to Ag Leader Technology on Jan. 13 for "Apparatus, systems and methods for applying fluid" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,746, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Ag Leader Technology (Ames, Iowa).

"Apparatus, systems and methods for applying fluid" was invented by Douglas Gilbert (Ames, Iowa), Ron Farrington (Nevada, Iowa) and John Howard (Ames, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed apparatus, systems and methods relate to fluid distribution systems. The fluid distribution systems being made up of a plurality of positive displacement pumps disposed on a fluid distribution manifold and proximate to the tank and the point of product discharge. The system optionally has a valve system for precision control of fluid discharge."

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