ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,971, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG (Basel, Switzerland).
"Sowing device and method for treating seeds during planting" was invented by Jamie Rickard (Oftringen, Switzerland), Christophe Lupfer (Basel, Switzerland) and Christoph Grimm (Basel, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sowing device for discharging and treating discharged plant propagation materials during their fall onto an underlying agricultural surface (B), having a reservoir container (10) for the plant materials, having a separating device (20) which is configured to separate plant materials (K) fed from the reservoir container ...