ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,894, issued on May 20, was assigned to Raven Industries Inc. (Sioux Falls, S.D.).

"Agricultural weed dispatching implements" was invented by Jared Ernest Kocer (Sioux Falls, S.D.) and Brent A. Driesen (Alvord, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural implement that can concurrently cultivate and spray includes an implement support frame. A plurality of cultivator row units is coupled with the implement support frame. Each cultivator row unit of the plurality of cultivator row units includes a dispatching implement. A sprayer system coupled with the implement support frame includes a fluid holding tank coupled with the impl...