US Patent Issued to AGCO on June 30 for "Sprayer vehicle comprising telescoping parallel linkage and related methods" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,096, issued on June 30, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Sprayer vehicle comprising telescoping parallel linkage and related methods" was invented by Evan Thomas Smith (Spirit Lake, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sprayer vehicle includes a mobile frame, a boom, and a boom-positioning mechanism. The boom is spaced from the frame. The boom-positioning mechanism is configured to support the boom on the frame for selective movement between a raised boom position and a lowered boom position. The boom-positioning mechanism includes a positioning actuator and a telescoping parallel linkage providing constant spacing between...