ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,447, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Vaderstad Holding AB (Vaderstad, Sweden).

"Agricultural implement and method of feeding granular material to ground over which the agricultural implement travels" was invented by Niclas Rydmark (Mjolby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device (16) for feeding granular material in an agricultural implement comprises an auger conveyor (163a, 163b), which is designed to feed the material, an agitator (162), and a drive device (167, 168a, 168b) for driving the agitator (162) and the auger conveyor (163a, 163b). The drive device (167, 168a, 168b) is adjustable between a first operating state,...