US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on July 29 for "Agricultural trench depth sensing systems, methods, and apparatus" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,514, issued on July 29, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Agricultural trench depth sensing systems, methods, and apparatus" was invented by Michael Strnad (Delavan, Ill.) and Nicholas Minarich (Shorewood, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile agricultural machine includes a row unit having a furrow opener mounted to the row unit and configured to engage a surface of ground over which the mobile agricultural machine travels to open a furrow in the ground. A furrow closer is mounted to the row unit behind the furrow opener and configured to engage the surface of the ground to close the furrow. A furrow se...