US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on March 3 for "Systems and apparatuses for soil and seed monitoring" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,122, issued on March 3, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Systems and apparatuses for soil and seed monitoring" was invented by Michael Strnad (Delavan, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soil apparatus is drawn through a furrow and reflectance from the furrow is obtained from the soil apparatus, and a height off target is measured between the soil apparatus and the furrow."

The patent was filed on Nov. 30, 2022, under Application No. 18/060,266.

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