US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on March 3 for "Multiplexed pneumatic control air system for slurry filtration" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,802, issued on March 3, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Multiplexed pneumatic control air system for slurry filtration" was invented by Todd Swanson (Morton, Ill.), Dale M. Koch (Tremont, Ill.), Nicholas Minarich (Shorewood, Ill.) and Nicholas Winkler (Gurnee, 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 i...