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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 06, 2015
Applicant:

Cnh Industrial America Llc, New Holland, PA (US);

Inventors:

Keith W. Wendte, Willowbrook, IL (US);

Brian T. Adams, Centralia, MO (US);

Marvin A. Prickel, Homer Glen, IL (US);

Brian J. Anderson, Yorkville, IL (US);

Chad M. Johnson, Arlington Heights, IL (US);

Jason T. Czapka, Munster, IN (US);

Scott A. Long, Plainfield, IL (US);

Michael J. Connors, Lockport, IL (US);

Darian E. Landolt, Evanston, IL (US);

Assignee:

CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01C 7/04 (2006.01); A01C 21/00 (2006.01); A01C 7/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01C 7/10 (2013.01); A01C 7/04 (2013.01); A01C 21/00 (2013.01); A01C 21/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system for planting multiple types of seed and automatically switching between the varieties during planting in a single planting pass of a planting session of row-crop or other planting of an agricultural field. The system may include a bulk storage system, an on-row storage system, and a charging system that selectively delivers seeds of different varieties from the bulk storage system to the on-row storage system. The system may include a seed metering system that can be controlled at each of multiple row units to selectively plant different types or varieties of seed based on seed type or variety zones agricultural field, which may correspond to field characteristics defined in a seed variety prescription map.


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