ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,619, issued on May 27, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).
"Agricultural sampling system and related methods" was invented by Todd Swanson (Morton, Ill.), Timothy A. Schaefer (Tremont, Ill.) and Riley Litwiller (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 available nutrients. The sampling system allows multiple samples to be processed and analyzed for different analytes or chemical properties in a simultaneous concurrent or semi-concurren...