US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on July 22 for "Systems and methods for selective material placement" (Illinois, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,188, issued on July 22, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for selective material placement" was invented by Cary S. Hubner (Geneseo, Ill.), Elijah B. Garner (Bettendorf, Iowa) and Grant J. Wonderlich (Milan, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Furrows can be opened in a field. Seeds can be delivered to the furrows in the field at different locations in the field. The locations of the seeds in the field can be identified using different types of processing. The different types of process can include event-based processing or frequency-based processing. A material is applied to the field, based upon the s...