MUMBAI, India, April 10 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202421074956 A) filed by Deere & Company, Moline, U.S.A., on Oct. 4, 2024, for 'a metering unit.'

Inventor(s) include Dharamkar, Mahesh; Siddheshwaran, Rajasekar; and Thirumalai, Sathish.

The application for the patent was published on April 10, under issue no. 15/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention provides a metering unit (10) for a fertilizer unit (3) associated with a seed dispenser (5). The metering unit (10) has a space defined between a first cover (28) and a second cover (34), a fertilizer pick-up disc (30) dividing the space into a fertilizer accommodating space (18) and a fer...