ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,954, issued on July 15, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).
"Seeding system" was invented by Peter R. Nedved (Coal Valley, Ill.), Terry L. Snipes (East Moline, Ill.) and John M. Schweitzer (Ankeny, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seeding system includes a commodity tank configured to store a commodity, the commodity tank having an outlet. A meter has a meter inlet at the outlet of the commodity tank, a meter outlet, and a metering device between the meter inlet and the meter outlet. A manifold has a commodity inlet at the meter outlet, a first shoot having a first air inlet and a first manifold outlet, and a second ...