US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on March 25 for "Implement mounted sensors sensing seed and residue characteristics and control" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,657, issued on March 25, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Implement mounted sensors sensing seed and residue characteristics and control" was invented by Bradley W. Van De Woestyne (Wes Des Moines, Iowa), Bradley J. Hitchler (Baxter, Iowa), Justin A. Borgstadt (West Des Moines, Iowa), Anil Kumar Telikicherla (Urbandale, Iowa) and Oosman Saeed (Ankeny, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile agricultural machine includes a row unit having a furrow opener mounted to the row unit and configured to engage a surface of ground over which the mobile agricultural machine travels to open a furrow in the ground. A furrow clos...