US Patent Issued to Kinze Manufacturing on Jan. 27 for "Singulator insert for 3D singulation and seed orientation" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,799, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Kinze Manufacturing Inc. (Williamsburg, Iowa).

"Singulator insert for 3D singulation and seed orientation" was invented by Brad Kruse (Williamsburg, Iowa), Matthew Wilhelmi (Williamsburg, Iowa) and Stephen Eckert (Williamsburg, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural planting implement uses an air seed meter to meter and singulate seeds before directing them towards the field for planting. The air seed meter includes a seed disc that interacts with the seed to aid in planting the seeds at the desired manner so as to provide best spacing between subsequent seeds. To aid the metering ...