US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on July 1 for "Agricultural sampling system and related methods" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,694, issued on July 1, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Agricultural sampling system and related methods" was invented by Todd Swanson (Morton, Ill.), Kent Levy (Mortin, Ill.), Timothy A. Schaefer (Tremont, Ill.), Riley Litwiller (Tremont, Ill.), Reid Harman (Trivoli, Ill.), Joshua Seelye (Tremont, Ill.), Adam Vaccari (Tremont, Ill.), Joaquin Ganoza (Pingree Grove, Ill.) and Dale M. Koch (Tremont, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated computer-controlled sampling system and related methods for collecting, processing, and analyzing agricultural samples for various chemical properties such as plant ava...