US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on March 24 for "System and method for seed quality measurement and control" (Illinois, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,022, issued on March 24, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"System and method for seed quality measurement and control" was invented by Grant J. Wonderlich (Milan, Ill.), Zimin W. Vilar (Dubuque, Iowa), Bradley W. Van De Woestyne (West Des Moines, Iowa) and Timothy A. Wilcox (Cissna Park, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural planting machine includes a row unit that opens a furrow in a field at which the agricultural planting machine operates and a seed supply system that delivers a seed to the furrow. The agricultural planting machine further includes one or more seed quality sensors that observe the se...