US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on Sept. 23 for "Aerodynamic and centrifugal seed orientation system for agricultural planters" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,213, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Aerodynamic and centrifugal seed orientation system for agricultural planters" was invented by Mitchell R. Dille (Litchfield, Minn.) and Keith T. Strang (Zimmerman, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seed orientation apparatus and system has a seed transfer tube that receives randomly oriented seeds from an agricultural row planter seed meter and moves seeds from a seed collector to a curved pathway in a seed orientation coil assembly. The seed orientation coil assembly uses some combination of aerodynamics, centrifugal force, and path geometry to ...