US Patent Issued to KSi Conveyor on Oct. 7 for "Continuously flowing seed metering and discharge system" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,917, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KSi Conveyor Inc. (Sabetha, Kan.).

"Continuously flowing seed metering and discharge system" was invented by Jason P. Kaeb (Sabetha, Kan.), Dominic E. Meyer (Sabetha, Kan.) and Corbin Anliker (Sabetha, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seed metering and discharge system that generates and discharges a continuous stream of seed for downstream processing. A variable position gate is disposed at an output end of a bottom hopper of the system. During a measurement period, a commanded position of the variable position gate is adjusted in proportion to mass measurement signals received from load ce...