US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on Sept. 16 for "Agricultural trench depth systems, methods, and apparatus" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,488, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Agricultural trench depth systems, methods, and apparatus" was invented by Dillon Sloneker (Danvers, Ill.), Jeremy J. Hodel (Morton, Ill.) and Ben L. Schlipf (Tremont, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for adjusting the depth of a trench opened by a row unit (10) of an agricultural planter. The row unit (10) includes a trench depth adjustment assembly (90) configured to modify the trench depth. The trench depth adjustment assembly (90) includes a depth adjustment body (94) pivotally connected via a pivot (92) to a frame member (14) of the r...