US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on April 22 for "Agricultural trench depth systems, methods, and apparatus" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,541, issued on April 22, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Agricultural trench depth systems, methods, and apparatus" was invented by Dillon Sloneker (Danvers, Ill.), Todd Swanson (Morton, Ill.) and Dale Koch (Tremont, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatus for adjusting the depth of a trench opened by a row unit of an agricultural planter. The row unit includes a trench depth adjustment assembly configured to modify the furrow depth. In one embodiment, the depth adjustment assembly may include a gear box having one or more gears which engage with a gear rack. The gear box may be pivo...