ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,717, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).
"Row cleaner" was invented by Ian Radtke (Washington, Ill.), Jason J. Stoller (Eureka, Ill.), Cory Muhlbauer (Tremont, Ill.), Aaron Herrmann (Tremont, Ill.), John Weigand (Tremont, Ill.) and Paul Wildermuth (Tremont, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A row cleaner assembly includes an upper subframe mounted to an agricultural planter forward of the planter row unit and longitudinally aligned with the trench opening assembly. A lower subframe rotatably supports first and second row cleaner wheels. An intermediate subframe is pivotally connected at a forw...