US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on July 8 for "Targeted fluid/solid dispensing based on sensed seed data or sensed plant data" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,620, issued on July 8, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Targeted fluid/solid dispensing based on sensed seed data or sensed plant data" was invented by Ben L. Schlipf (Tremont, Ill.) and Justin McMenamy (Edwards, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planter system includes seed sensors for determining seed placement in a furrow to then target at least one of fluid and solid application with respect to the seed. Plant sensors determine locations of plants within a field and then target at least one of fluid and solid application with respect to the plant."

The patent was filed on Nov. 29, 2023, under Applicati...