ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,593, issued on May 26, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Data transfer" was invented by Ryan Allgaier (East Peoria, Ill.), David Aaron Wilcoxson (Tremont, Ill.) and Norman Dubert (Morton, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of transferring as applied data from one agricultural monitor to another agricultural monitor without using external software to convert the data. The method includes collecting as applied data as a first machine that is coupled with a first agricultural implement both traverse a field and perform an agricultural operation on a first region of the field. The method further includes s...