US Patent Issued to Kinze Manufacturing on June 17 for "Planter with high speed seed delivery apparatus" (Iowa, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,058, issued on June 17, was assigned to Kinze Manufacturing Inc. (Williamsburg, Iowa).

"Planter with high speed seed delivery apparatus" was invented by Matthew Wilhelmi (Williamsburg, Iowa), Dustan Hahn (Tampa, Fla.), Philip Willis (Williamsburg, Iowa), Dean Martin (Williamsburg, Iowa), Dalton McDowell (Williamsburg, Iowa) and Gary Newell (Williamsburg, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural planting implement includes a number of row units. The row units include one or more seed meters for receiving, singulating, and dispensing seed to the ground such that preferred spacing of subsequent seed is attained. A seed meter ...