US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on March 25 for "Systems, methods, and apparatus for agricultural material application" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,661, issued on March 25, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Systems, methods, and apparatus for agricultural material application" was invented by Jeremy J. Hodel (Morton, Ill.) and Douglas William Urbaniak (Mackinaw, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural toolbar having: a frame; a wheel mounted to the frame and disposed to be on one side of a trench opened by a furrow opening assembly, wherein the wheel has a channel disposed from the outer circumference and radially inward toward the center of the wheel and disposed to at least partially accept a fluid injector at least partially within the chan...