ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,614, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).
"Seeding robot" was invented by Johannes Utz (Marktoberdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seeding robot includes a power supply, a frame, an opening device for creating a trench, a seed reservoir, and a seed dispensing apparatus configured to deposit seed in the trench from a dispense point. A pair of driven leading wheels are laterally offset to opposite sides of the dispense point. A trailing wheel is positioned behind, and aligned on a longitudinal axis with, the dispense point. The trailing wheel may serve a pressing function beh...