ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,482, issued on March 17, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).
"Seed accelerator" was invented by Jeremy J. Hodel (Morton, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seeding system having a seed meter; a conduit for receiving seeds released from the seed meter at a first end of the conduit; a gas source connected to the conduit proximate the first end for accelerating seed in the gas; and a seed orientation coil assembly connected to the second end to receive the accelerated seed."
The patent was filed on Sept. 23, 2022, under Application No. 18/690,303.
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