ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,885, issued on July 15, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Agricultural seed detection and tracking system" was invented by Grant J. Wonderlich (Milan, Ill.) and Cary S. Hubner (Geneseo, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural machine includes a seeding system having a seed meter configured to meter seed, a seed meter sensor configured to generate a sensor signal indicative of movement of the seed meter, and an assistive seed transport mechanism configured to receive the metered seed from the seed meter and to transport the metered seed along a delivery path. A control system is configured to determine a positio...