US Patent Issued to Ag Leader Technology on June 9 for "Planter downforce and uplift monitoring and control feedback devices, systems and associated methods" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,501, issued on June 9, was assigned to Ag Leader Technology (Ames, Iowa).

"Planter downforce and uplift monitoring and control feedback devices, systems and associated methods" was invented by Scott Eichhorn (Ames, Iowa), Tony Woodcock (Ames, Iowa), Brett Buehler (Dallas Center, Iowa), Steven Brown (Ames, Iowa), Roger Zielke (Huxley, Iowa) and Bob Heston (Madrid, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "On-the-go monitoring and controlled feedback in supplemental downforce applications. The system provides real-time monitoring of furrow depth via contact and non-contact approaches, some of which are combined with gauge wheel feedback to ca...