US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on July 21 for "Agricultural sampling system and related methods" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,468, issued on July 21, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Agricultural sampling system and related methods" was invented by Matthew O'Neall (Ellsworth, Ill.), Todd Swanson (Morton, Ill.) and Dale M. Koch (Tremont, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated computer-controlled sampling system and related methods for collecting, processing, and analyzing agricultural samples for various chemical properties such as plant available nutrients. The sampling system allows multiple samples to be processed and analyzed for different analytes or chemical properties in a simultaneous concurrent or semi-concurrent ma...