US Patent Issued to Vaderstad Holding on May 27 for "Gauge wheel device, row unit, agricultural implement and method of operating gauge wheel device" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,271, issued on May 27, was assigned to Vaderstad Holding AB (Vaderstad, Sweden).

"Gauge wheel device, row unit, agricultural implement and method of operating gauge wheel device" was invented by Morgan Collin (Mjolby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document discloses a gauge wheel device (22) for maintaining working depth of a row unit (2) included in an agricultural implement, comprising a gauge wheel arm (220) which, at a distal portion thereof, carries a gauge wheel (221) which is rotatable about a gauge wheel shaft (2201, 220T). An effective length of the carrier arm (220) is variable. The document discloses a row uni...