US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on Nov. 3 for "Trench closing assembly" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,998, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Trench closing assembly" was invented by Ian Radtke (Washington, Ill.), Jason Stoller (Eureka, Ill.), Tristan Herrmann (Princeville, Ill.) and Ben Schlipf (Tremont, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trench closing assembly for a row unit of an agricultural planter includes a main frame connected rearwardly to the row unit frame by a connection bracket. An attachment bracket is connected to the connection bracket and a frame member is pivotally connected to the attachment bracket. The frame member includes first and second arms rotatably supporting firs...