US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on May 5 for "Agricultural implements and methods of planting" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,078, issued on May 5, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Agricultural implements and methods of planting" was invented by Jeremy Hodel (Morton, Ill.), Justin McMenamy (Edwards, Ill.), Dale Koch (Tremont, Ill.) and Luke Stuber (Tremont, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural implement includes a row unit frame (202) coupled to a draw bar (204) by a height-adjustable mount, a set of opening discs (212) coupled to the row unit frame such that the opening discs are vertically fixed relative to the row unit frame, and a biasing member (210) configured to adjust a height of the row unit frame to maintain th...