US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Feb. 10 for "Actuator for setting seed depth for a row unit on a planter" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,631, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Actuator for setting seed depth for a row unit on a planter" was invented by Robert W. Martin (Davenport, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural planter row unit has a trench opener fixed to a support frame and a gauge wheel supported by a gauge wheel arm to control planting depth. An electric actuator drives movement of a linkage with a mechanical stop that bears against the gauge wheel support arm to position the gauge wheel to obtain the desired planting depth. A seed depth control system receives an operator input, from an operator compartment of a ...