ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,054, issued on June 17, was assigned to Amazonen-Werke H. Dreyer SE & Co. KG (Hasbergen, Germany).
"Method of spreading granular material" was invented by Stefan Kiefer (Osnabruck, Germany) and Timo Klemann (Belm, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of spreading granular material by an agricultural distribution device includes the steps of: spreading granular material onto an agricultural land by a plurality of distribution elements arranged on a distribution linkage of the agricultural distribution device, and detecting plant rows on the agricultural land during the spreading of the granular material, wherein the granula...