US Patent Issued to Vaderstad Holding on Nov. 18 for "Row unit, agricultural implement comprising row unit and method of operating row unit" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,520, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Vaderstad Holding AB (Vaderstad, Sweden).

"Row unit, agricultural implement comprising row unit and method of operating row unit" was invented by Gert Gilstring (Vadstena, Sweden), Crister Stark (Vaderstad, Sweden), Rune Rommedahl (Ljungsbro, Sweden) and Per-Arne Hagby (Odeshog, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural implement includes a row unit (2) for feeding granular material to the ground. The row unit has a seed furrow-opener, which has a seed furrow-opening arm (21) carrying a seed disc (22). The seed furrow-opening arm has a proximal portion, in which the seed furrow-open...