ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,446, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).
"Systems and methods for monitoring seed placement within the ground" was invented by Michael Christopher Conboy (Chicago) and Trevor Stanhope (Oak Lawn, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring seed placement within the ground during the performance of a planting operation includes receiving, with a computing device, a timing signal associated with a detection of a seed to be deposited within soil by a row unit as the row unit is actively depositing seeds within the soil, and identifying, with the computing device, a time associ...