US Patent Issued to Bourgault Industries on April 14 for "Optimizing relative placement of seeds and fertilizers" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,057, issued on April 14, was assigned to Bourgault Industries Ltd. (St. Brieux, Canada).

"Optimizing relative placement of seeds and fertilizers" was invented by Mark Cresswell (St. Brieux, Canada) and Devin Lung (St. Brieux, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of improving crop yields by optimizing seed depth and a separation distance between seeds and fertilizer during planting into a field surface as soil conditions change between negative field portions and positive field portions of the field surface and the transitional field portion lying between the negative and positive field portions wherein the seed depth and s...