US Patent Issued to Kinze Manufacturing on July 7 for "Air entrainment device, systems, methods, and apparatus" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,598, issued on July 7, was assigned to Kinze Manufacturing Inc. (Williamsburg, Iowa).

"Air entrainment device, systems, methods, and apparatus" was invented by Robert Blackwell (Williamsburg, Iowa), Dan Killpack (Williamsburg, Iowa), Dalton McDowell (Williamsburg, Iowa) and Matthew Wilhelmi (Williamsburg, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planter includes a seed a delivery system for delivering seed from one or more hoppers to one or more row units of the planter. The seed delivery system includes a number of seed entrainers. The seed entrainers receive seed from the one or more hoppers. The seed is combined with a fluid, such as ...