ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,042, issued on June 30, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).
"Apparatuses for soil and seed monitoring" was invented by Jeremy J. Hodel (Morton, Ill.) and Michael Strnad (Delavan, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a soil apparatus includes a soil engaging portion to engage with soil and a plurality of sensors disposed in the soil apparatus and having a pivotable axis within the soil apparatus. Each sensor is independently pivotable about the pivotable axis to independently position for sensing soil characteristics of soil."
The patent was filed on Sept. 28, 2020, under Application No. 17/758,7...