ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,625, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Systems and apparatuses for soil and seed monitoring" was invented by Dale M. Koch (Tremont, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system having: a processing unit to execute instructions for processing agricultural data; and a memory to store agricultural data, the processing unit is configured to execute instructions to obtain soil data from at least one sensor of an implement, and to determine, based on the soil data, seed germination data including at least one of time to germination, time to emergence, and seed germination risk for displa...