US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on Dec. 16 for "Targeted fluid/solid dispensing based on sensed seed data or sensed plant data" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,729, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Targeted fluid/solid dispensing based on sensed seed data or sensed plant data" was invented by Jason Stoller (Eureka, Ill.), Ben L. Schlipf (Tremont, Ill.) and Justin McMenamy (Edwards, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planter system includes seed sensors for determining seed placement in a furrow to then target at least one of fluid and solid application with respect to the seed. A material application system dispenses a fluid or solid material with one or more dispensing devices containing at least a first material dispensing location to dispense...