ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,467, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Kinze Manufacturing Inc. (Williamsburg, Iowa).
"Shared planter data" was invented by Matthew Moeller (Williamsburg, Iowa), Matthew Baker (Williamsburg, Iowa), Michael Ehler (Williamsburg, Iowa), Ryan McMahan (Williamsburg, Iowa), Jason Schoon (Williamsburg, Iowa) and Tony Steidler-Dennison (Williamsburg, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sharing planter data is made efficient through an initial separation of agricultural data before transmission of the same. During performance of agricultural tasks, generated data is stored in files representing geographic regions. Several data layers of the fi...