US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Sept. 9 for "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for seed double elimination in agricultural operations" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,578, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Apparatuses, systems, and methods for seed double elimination in agricultural operations" was invented by Cary S. Hubner (Geneseo, Ill.), Lee E. Zumdome (Bettendorf, Iowa) and Kamalakannan Natarajan (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example seed double eliminator includes at least one tine that is disposed adjacent to an inner surface of a seed disc. The at least one tine is pivotably movable about an axis of rotation to engage seed doubles located at one or more locations along the inner surface of the seed disc and eliminate excess seeds such that a ...