ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,973, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Jose Roberto Assy (Caldas Novas, Brazil).
"Seed capture devices for seed meters and related systems" was invented by Jose Roberto do Amaral Assy (Caldas Novas, Brazil), Claudio Chiba Kawasaki (Sao Paulo), Duceni Alves de Souza (Diadema, Brazil) and Paulo Ricardo da Silva Pereira (Sao Paulo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Seed capture devices for a seed meter may include a seed a movable element configured to capture seeds from a seed disk of a seed meter and a power transmission element operably coupled to the movable element to drive the movable element when the seed meter is in operation and o...