US Patent Issued to Harvest International on Oct. 27 for "Agricultural row unit lift assembly" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,925, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Harvest International Inc. (Storm Lake, Laos).

"Agricultural row unit lift assembly" was invented by Jeffrey Alan Sivinski (Cherokee, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lift assembly includes an insert frame between the toolbar and a row unit on agricultural planter. The lift assembly frame includes an actuator which is extended and retracted to raise and lower a pair of arms engaging a crop shaft connected to the parallel link arms of the row unit, to thereby raise and lower the row unit between planting and non-planting positions. With one of the lift assemblies associated with each row un...