US Patent Issued to Ag Leader Technology on March 3 for "Devices, systems, and methods for seed trench protection" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,117, issued on March 3, was assigned to Ag Leader Technology (Ames, Iowa).

"Devices, systems, and methods for seed trench protection" was invented by Roger Zielke (Huxley, Iowa), Tony Woodcock (Ames, Iowa), Scott Eichhorn (Ames, Iowa), Brett Buehler (Dallas Center, Iowa), Bob Heston (Madrid, Iowa), Joe Holoubek (Ames, Iowa) and Jonathan Brand (Ames, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Protecting open seed trenches from ingress of foreign material, such as plant residue. Preventing foreign material from entering the open seed trench during planting increases crop yield by minimizing delayed germination and late plant emergence. Variou...