US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on May 12 for "Fertilizer blockage cleaning system for an agricultural fertilizer spreader" (Mexican Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,346, issued on May 12, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Fertilizer blockage cleaning system for an agricultural fertilizer spreader" was invented by Oscar De Jesus Morales (Monterrey, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural fertilizer system and method for applying a granular fertilizer to a field. A hopper defines a cavity adapted to hold the granular fertilizer and a metering device is coupled to the hopper, and is adapted to deliver a metered amount of fertilizer through a fertilizer hose coupled to a fertilizer spreader. A sensor device is disposed along the fertilizer hose between the fertilizer hose inp...