ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,794, issued on April 21, was assigned to Bourgault Industries Ltd. (St. Brieux, Canada).

"Singulating arrangement and extraction from singulating meter" was invented by Scot Jagow (St. Brieux, Canada), Aden Arguin (St. Brieux, Canada), Brennan Crooymans (St. Brieux, Canada), Ryan Cowan (St. Brieux, Canada) and Jami Rieder (St. Brieux, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A singulating meter apparatus comprising a seed disc operative to be rotated in a housing about a disc rotational axis with inner and outer rows of seed apertures defined by the seed disc. A singulator is arranged to protrude from an outer and inner side of both pa...