US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on March 31 for "Agricultural machines having sectional control, and related systems and methods" (North Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,583, issued on March 31, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Agricultural machines having sectional control, and related systems and methods" was invented by Peder Pederson (West Fargo, N.D.), Paul Nystuen (West Fargo, N.D.) and Karl-Heinz Mertins (West Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural machine includes a product bin configured to store particulate material; a conveyor configured to draw the particulate material from the product bin; a distribution plate including a plurality of apertures; and a sectional control funnel box mounted on the distribution plate. The sectional control funnel ...