US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on March 25 for "Systems and methods for selective fertilizer placement" (Iowa, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,664, issued on March 25, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for selective fertilizer placement" was invented by Elijah B. Garner (Bettendorf, Iowa), Todd N. Signer (Bettendorf, Iowa), Cary S. Hubner (Geneseo, Ill.), Grant J. Wonderlich (Milan, Ill.) and Kenneth E. Herrmann (Port Byron, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Locations of seeds in a field can be identified using event-based processing or frequency-based processing. A material is applied to the field, based upon the seed locations."

The patent was filed on Sept. 19, 2022, under Application No. 17/947,734.

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