ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,515, issued on July 29, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).
"Seed delivery apparatus, systems, and methods" was invented by Ian Radtke (Washington, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for delivering seed to a planting surface, having: a seed meter having a housing with a guide pocket; a seed conveyor disposed to receive the seed from the seed meter at an upper end of the seed conveyor, the seed conveyor having a belt which conveys the seed from the upper end to a lower end of the seed conveyor, and wherein the conveyed seed is released from the seed conveyor with a rearward velocity relative to a forw...