US Patent Issued to Precision Planting on Oct. 27 for "Seed retaining" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,924, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Precision Planting LLC (Tremont, Ill.).

"Seed retaining" was invented by Jeremy J. Hodel (Morton, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of depositing oriented seeds into a trench including forming a trench (299); depositing a foam (289) into the trench (299); and depositing seed (279) from a seed orientation device (270) into the foam (289) in the trench (299). Also, an agricultural row unit (200) having: a frame (204); an opening unit (260) connected to the frame (204) for opening a trench (299) as the row unit (200) moves in a direction of travel: a foam delivery tube (281) for deliver...