US Patent Issued to Anhui Agricultural University on June 23 for "Seed-metering device having multiple cavities and magnetic seed protection assembly" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,740, issued on June 23, was assigned to Anhui Agricultural University (Hefei City, China).

"Seed-metering device having multiple cavities and magnetic seed protection assembly" was invented by Shun Zhang (Hefei City, China), Fangyuan Wang (Hefei City, China), Huyang Tang (Hefei, China), Yu Wan (Hefei City, China), Bo Zhou (Hefei City, China), Jinwei Yan (Hefei City, China), Chaoyang Zhang (Hefei City, China), Fuming Kuang (Hefei City, China), Wei Xiong (Hefei City, China), Zhaodong Li (Hefei City, China), Juan Liao (Hefei City, China) and Dequan Zhu (Hefei City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cavity-type seed-metering device ...