US Patent Issued to AGCO on Sept. 30 for "Central filling system and method for an agricultural application implement" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,531, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Central filling system and method for an agricultural application implement" was invented by Kevin J. Hamilton (Newton, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seed filling system is mounted to a trailing implement that is towed by an agricultural machine. The seed filling system has a reduced-volume receptacle for receiving seed and a metering assembly that causes the distribution of the seed through a manifold to respective storage containers of plural row units before the seed is dispensed to soil."

The patent was filed on Aug. 17, 2020, under Application No. 17/6...