ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,845, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).
"Seed trench closing sensors" was invented by Dale Koch (Tremont, Ill.), Jason Stoller (Eureka, Ill.), Todd Swanson (Morton, Ill.), Michael Strnad (Delavan, Ill.), Matthew Morgan (Peoria, Ill.), Ian Radtke (Washington, Ill.), Timothy Kater (Bloomington, Ill.) and Jeremy Hodel (Morton, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for sensing characteristics of a trench in a soil surface during planting operations. A trench opening assembly opens a trench in the soil surface as the trench opening assembly moves in a forward direction of travel. A trench clo...