ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,445, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Vaderstad Holding AB (Vaderstad, Sweden).

"Singulator for agricultural implement, agricultural implement and method of operating a singulator" was invented by Lars Thylen (Linkoping, Sweden), Gert Gilstring (Vadstena, Sweden) and Jorgen Dahl (Odeshog, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A singulating device (171) for singulating granular material in an agricultural implement comprises a metering member (1714), which is movably arranged in a meter chamber (1710) and which presents a plurality of through holes (1715, 1715a, 1715b), which are arranged along a direction of movement of the meterin...