Patents Issued in November 19, 2019
  • Patent number: PP31069
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Bedding Rose plant, herein referred to by its cultivar name, ‘MEICERAFYN’, is provided which forms very abundantly on a nearly continuous basis attractive, cup-shaped, red-purple colored blossoms. Attractive, glossy, very dense foliage is formed, which contrasts beautifully with the blossoms. A compact, bushy growth habit is displayed. The disease tolerance is exceptional, particularly against rust and Black Spot. The new variety is well suited for proving attractive ornamentation in the landscape and is very floriferous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: THE CONARD-PYLE COMPANY
    Inventor: Alain A. Meilland
  • Patent number: PP31070
    Abstract: A new garden rose plant of the miniature class which has abundant, yellow flowers and attractive foliage. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Poulsen Roser A/S
    Inventor: Mogens Nyegaard Olesen
  • Patent number: PP31071
    Abstract: A new garden rose plant of the Miniature class which has abundant, orange red flowers and attractive foliage. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: POULSEN ROSER A/S
    Inventor: Mogens Nyegaard Olesen
  • Patent number: PP31072
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Floribunda Rose Plant, herein referred to by its cultivar name, ‘KORteidros’, is provided which forms in abundance on a substantially continuous basis attractive, medium red colored blossoms with a cream reverse. The vegetation is vigorous and the growth habit is very bushy and compact. Attractive ornamental glossy, dark green foliage is formed. The new variety is particularly well suited for providing distinctive ornamentation in the landscape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: W. KORDES' SOHNE ROSENSCHULEN GMBH & CO KG
    Inventor: Wilhelm-Alexander Kordes
  • Patent number: PP31073
    Abstract: A new and distinct floribunda Rosa cultivar named ‘ALTmine’ is disclosed, characterized by distinctive fully double yellow flowers with a sweet, spicy fragrance. Plants are vigorous and foliage glossy. The new variety is a Rosa, normally produced as an outdoor garden or container plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Altman Specialty Plants, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Lim
  • Patent number: PP31074
    Abstract: The new blueberry plant variety ‘Ridley 0808’ is provided. ‘Ridley 0808’ is a commercial variety intended for use as fresh fruit for shipping, hand pick, customer pick, machine harvest and processing markets and as a home garden plant. The variety is produced from a cross of ‘M09-48-01’ (not patented) and ‘M08-38-01.’ (not patented), which can be distinguished by its outstanding features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mountain Blue Orchards, Pty Ltd.
    Inventor: Ridley Bell
  • Patent number: PP31075
    Abstract: A new and distinct Malus domestica (Borkh.) variety that bears fruits having a yellow skin color and good eating and keeping qualities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Varieties International, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Neumüller
  • Patent number: PP31076
    Abstract: A variety of crabapple which combines a combination of a narrow, upright columnar growth habit, short internodes resulting in compact growth, attractive white flowers, slightly glossy dark green foliage, persistent red fruit, and a strong resistance to the diseases fireblight and apple scab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co.
    Inventor: Keith S. Warren
  • Patent number: PP31077
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Bedding Rose plant, herein referred to by its cultivar name, ‘MEIZYGGLIE’, is provided which forms very abundantly on a nearly continuous basis attractive, cup-shaped, intense red colored blossoms. Attractive, glossy, very dense foliage is formed, which contrasts beautifully with the blossoms. The growth habit is vigorous. The disease tolerance is very good, particularly against rust and Black Spot. The new variety is well suited for proving attractive ornamentation in the landscape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: THE CONARD-PYLE COMPANY
    Inventor: Alain Antoine Meilland
  • Patent number: PP31078
    Abstract: A new and distinct plum tree variety, Prunus salicina, cv. ‘Suplumfiftysix’ is characterized by having very large fruit, with reddish-black skin and red flesh. The fruit of the new variety ‘Suplumfiftysix’ also has firm flesh, a sweet-mild flavor and a stone that is semi-free from the flesh. The date of ripening of the fruit of the new variety is approximately September 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Sun World International, LLC
    Inventor: Terry A. Bacon
  • Patent number: PP31079
    Abstract: A new and distinct plum tree variety, Prunus salicina, cv. ‘Suplumfiftyfive’ is characterized by having early-ripening fruit that is large, with black skin and red flesh. The fruit of the new variety ‘Suplumfiftyfive’ also has firm flesh, a sweet-mild flavor and a stone that is semi-free from the flesh. The date of ripening of the fruit of the new variety is approximately June 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Sun World International, LLC
    Inventor: Terry A. Bacon
  • Patent number: PP31080
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of peach tree, Prunus persica, broadly characterized by a large size, vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The variety blooms during mid season and requires about 525 chilling hours. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in mid June, with first picking on Jun. 14, 2018. The fruit is uniform, medium in size, globose in shape, freestone in type, firm and crisp in texture, mostly red in skin color, white in flesh color, and sub-acidic in flavor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Inventors: Lowell Glen Bradford, Jon M. Quisenberry
  • Patent number: PP31081
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of peach tree, denominated ‘Rich Joy’, has firm, freestone, melting, yellow flesh fruit with normal acidity, rich flavor, good eating quality, and long shelf life on trees and after harvesting. The fruit typically ripen about one week after ‘Julyprince’ in mid-July in Byron, Ga., have a high percentage of red blush with an attractive yellow ground color on skin surface, and usually are almost round with a slightly prominent suture. The tree is moderately vigorous and semi-spreading in growth habit, has self-fertile showy pink flowers, and regularly bears heavy annual crops. This variety has a winter chilling requirement estimated at approximately 850 chill hours and is suited for high chill areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Chunxian Chen, William R. Okie
  • Patent number: PP31082
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Fragaria plant ‘Blossomberry’ characterized by its white berries with red achenes with the sun exposed side of the berries flushed with pink, its firm berries, its flowers that produce pollen, its berries with a fruit weight of 10 to 20 grams, and its berries that are produced in June in The Netherlands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: BEEKERS BERRIES BREEDING BV
    Inventor: Johannes Adrianus Petrus de Jongh
  • Patent number: PP31083
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of strawberry plant named ‘DrisStrawSixtyThree’, particularly characterized by its early yield potential, fruit size and shape, compact plant size, and plant health, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: DRISCOLL'S, INC.
    Inventors: Omar Carrillo Mendoza, Luis Miguel Rodriguez, Philip J. Stewart, Maribel Martinez Negrete
  • Patent number: PP31084
    Abstract: A new and distinct Lycium plant named ‘SMNLBBB’, characterized by its upright to outwardly arching plant habit; freely branching habit; dense and bushy growth habit; yellow green-colored leaves; purple violet-colored flowers; large, numerous and attractive orange red-colored fruits; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Spring Meadow Nursery Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy D. Wood
  • Patent number: PP31085
    Abstract: A new Clematis plant with a compact growth habit, profuse, Violet Blue flowers, and continuous summer flowering. The variety successfully propagates from softwood cuttings and is suitable for cultivation in commercial nursery culture. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation from vegetative cuttings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: POULSEN ROSER A/S
    Inventors: Mogens Nyegaard Olesen, Raymond J. Evison
  • Patent number: PP31086
    Abstract: A new Clematis plant with a compact growth habit, profuse, violet purple flowers, and continuous summer flowering. The variety successfully propagates from softwood cuttings and is suitable for cultivation in commercial nursery culture. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation from vegetative cuttings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: POULSEN ROSER A/S
    Inventors: Mogens Nyegaard Olesen, Raymond J. Evison
  • Patent number: PP31087
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Veronica plant named ‘Balverevlu’, characterized by its deep violet-blue colored flowers, medium green-colored foliage, and vigorous, upright-mounded growth habit, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Ball Horticultural Company
    Inventor: Lynne Knosher
  • Patent number: PP31088
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Gardenia plant, referred to by its cultivar name, ‘WAH-SG’, is provided which forms single, small sized, fragrant, white colored inflorescences. Attractive, glossy, dark green colored foliage is formed, which contrasts beautifully with the blossoms. The vegetation is moderately vigorous and the growth habit is tight, compact, and rounded. The new variety is well suited for proving attractive ornamentation in the landscape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: SOUTHERN PLANT GROUP, LLC
    Inventor: William A. Head
  • Patent number: PP31089
    Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental Japanese Anemone plant named Anemone ‘Sweetly’ with medium spreading habit, dense vertical peduncle of numerous semi-double flowers with deep rose-pink petals, beginning late summer and continuing into early fall, set just above the dark green, tri-foliate leaves with irregularly serrated to biserrated margins. The new plant is useful for landscaping as a specimen, en masse, or in containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Walters Gardens Inc
    Inventor: Hans A Hansen
  • Patent number: PP31090
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Verbena plant named ‘Dovewihop’, characterized by its compact, semi-trailing and mounding plant habit; moderately vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; early and freely flowering habit; and red-colored flowers that become light red purple and white with development; flowers held above and beyond the foliar plane in mounded umbels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Dümmen Group B.V.
    Inventor: Arjan Koot
  • Patent number: PP31091
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Phalaenopsis plant named ‘PHALGORFON’, particularly characterized by having white, flecked flowers with red-purple lips, 1 to 3 peduncles that are long and sturdy, leaves that are oblong, and is propagated by meristem tissue culture, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: ANTHURA B.V.
    Inventor: Martinus Nicolaas Gerardus Van Swieten
  • Patent number: PP31092
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Phlox plant named ‘PHMZ0002,’ characterized by its large sized inflorescences, having a lilac color with a white eye, deep green leaves, and a compact, upright, and branched plant habit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: DITOPLANT EXPORT BV
    Inventor: Henricus Godefridus Wilhelmus Stemkens
  • Patent number: PP31093
    Abstract: A new Pelargonium plant named ‘PEQZ0044” particularly distinguished by the hot rose colored inflorescences held above the medium-green foliage, very heat and drought tolerant with continuous color through the most extreme summer heat, and exceptional edema tolerance on a well-branched plant habit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventor: Mitchell E. Hanes
  • Patent number: PP31094
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named ‘Wespecratito’, characterized by its semi-upright to semi-trailing and mounding plant habit; moderately vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; long flowering period; medium-sized flowers that are pale orange and red purple in color with a greyed purple star-shaped pattern; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Gartenbau und Spezialkulturen Westhoff GbR
    Inventor: Heinrich Westhoff
  • Patent number: PP31095
    Abstract: A new and distinct Echeveria agavoides cultivar named ‘Love's Fire’ is disclosed, rapid, robust growth and improved resistance to fungal disease brought on by overwatering. Plants offset freely, producing an attractive cluster. Foliage is bright red during cooler months and distinctively red during the rest of the year. Echeveria is a popular genus, typically produced as container plants for the patio or as landscape plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Altman Specialty Plants, Inc.
    Inventor: Renee O'Connell
  • Patent number: PP31096
    Abstract: A new cultivar of xGasteraloe plant named ‘Kyaka’ that is characterized by green leaves with grey-green orbicular dots, leaf margins with white teeth and a basal rosette plant shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Eden Collection B.V.
    Inventor: Obed Jacob Smit
  • Patent number: PP31097
    Abstract: A new variety of Pennisetum alopecuroides plant named ‘Tift PA18’ produces a reduced number of seeds, making it less invasive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne W. Hanna, Brian M. Schwartz
  • Patent number: PP31098
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Suncal 1082’, characterized by its semi-upright and mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; long flowering period; large light yellow-colored flowers; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Suntory Flowers Limited
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamada
  • Patent number: PP31099
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Suncal 5101’, characterized by its semi-upright and mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; long flowering period; large red purple-colored flowers with white and yellow-colored centers; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Suntory Flowers Limited
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamada
  • Patent number: PP31100
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Heuchera named ‘High Hopes’ that is characterized by its leaves that are very large in size, its leaves that are green-yellow in color with brown orange veins, its flowers that are creamy white in color, its healthy and vigorous growth habit and its high tolerance to heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Inventor: Thierry Delabroye
  • Patent number: PP31101
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Heuchera named ‘Maple Leaf’ that is characterized by its glossy young leaves, its flowers that are white in color and its unique foliage that is orange in color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Inventor: Thierry Delabroye
  • Patent number: PP31102
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Phygelius plant characterized by medium size dark orange flowers, a long bloom time, an upright, well branched habit, with multiple crowns from the base, clean-looking, deep green foliage, and excellent vigor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Terra Nova Nurseries, Inc.
    Inventor: Janet N. Egger
  • Patent number: PP31103
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Portulaca plant named ‘Doporcuporze’, characterized by its upright to low spreading growth habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; and large light red-colored flowers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Dümmen Group B.V.
    Inventor: Arjan Koot
  • Patent number: PP31104
    Abstract: A new cultivar of hybrid Salvia, ‘Amante’, that is characterized by its flowers that are typical of Salvia guaranitica in flower type and red and pink in color with dark calyces, its long blooming habit with new shoots producing flowers throughout the summer, its early commencement of bloom, its plant height of up to 1.2 meter, and its growth habit that lacks spreading roots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: NEW WORLD PLANTS LIMITED
    Inventor: Rolando Anibal Uria
  • Patent number: RE47731
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a compound represented by the following structural formula and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof: Compounds represented by this structural formula are kinase inhibitors and are therefore disclosed herein for the treatment of cancer. Definitions for the variables in the structural formula are provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Inventors: Peter Brent Sampson, Yong Liu, Sze-Wan Li, Bryan T. Forrest, Heinz W. Pauls, Louise G. Edwards, Miklos Feher, Narendra Kumar B. Patel
  • Patent number: RE47732
    Abstract: An equal gain composite beamforming technique which includes the constraint that the power of the signal output by each antenna is the same, and is equal to the total power of the transmit signal divided by the number N of transmit antennas from which the signal is to be transmitted. By reducing output power requirements for each power amplifier, the silicon area of the power amplifiers are reduced by as much as N times (where N is equal to the number of transmit antennas) relative to a non-equal gain composite beamforming technique. A method and apparatus are disclosed for a transmission technique by a wireless communications device which includes providing that the power applied to each transmit antenna may be equal to the total power of the transmit signal divided by the number N of transmit antennas from which the signal is to be transmitted. The device may determine a total transmit power and produce a multi-carrier signal for transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: IPR LICENSING, INC.
    Inventors: Gary L. Sugar, Chandra Vaidyanathan
  • Patent number: RE47733
    Abstract: An interlocking photovoltaic module mounting system that provides a one piece, integrated photovoltaic module frame portion that is directly mountable to a support structure and interlocks with separate adjoining photovoltaic module frame portions. The apparatus includes a frame member for enclosing the perimeter of a photovoltaic module, having an inside surface and outside surface, with the inside surface including a recess for capture of the panel. The frame member outside surface includes at least one interlocking means for affixation to the complementary outside surface of an adjacent frame-member. The frame member includes a height-adjustable foot portion for supporting the frame member on a roof, so that adjacent frame members may be interlocked to form an array, and the foot portion may be adjusted to level the formed array on the roof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventor: John Raymond West
  • Patent number: RE47734
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for location based call signal conversion in a wireless communication network. The location based call signal conversion apparatus comprises an LBS (Location Based Service) server that provides location information on user terminals, and a call signal conversion server that converts the called signal to anyone called terminal on the called target terminal list that has been set up according to the current location of said called user terminal if a call connection request to a receiving user terminal from a sending user terminal is sensed among said user terminals, and if conditions for call signal conversion are satisfied according to the location and state of said called user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Ki Jeon, Min Su Kim, Shi Jae Lee
  • Patent number: RE47735
    Abstract: A system is, method and apparatus are disclosed deploying a timer and a generator for temporally defining printable output of hyperlinked content corresponding to program material for generating a hyperlink address string structured as a print method for hyperlinking to the hyperlinked content corresponding to program material wherein the hyperlinking prints only pre-defined printing printable output of the hyperlinked content to transform the print method from a receiver receiving the hyperlink address string to a printer printing printable output of the hyperlinked content according to a second attribute of the hyperlink address string wherein activation of the hyperlinking to the hyperlinked content activates the printing printable output of the hyperlinked content comprising a the generator for generating a the hyperlink address string associated with the program material including a first attribute indicating a the hyperlink address to the hyperlinked content and a the second attribute indicating one or
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Progme Corporation
    Inventor: David Anthony Reams
  • Patent number: RE47736
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for supporting a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation in a Node B in a mobile communication system are provided. The method includes defining a second System Frame Number (SFN) where one cycle of a first SFN corresponds to one bit, transmitting information on the second SFN to a User Equipment (UE), determining a second SFN which is used to transmit a paging signal to the UE, determining a first SFN which is used to transmit the paging signal in the determined second SFN, and transmitting the paging signal to the UE at the determined first SFN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Bum Kim, Sung-Ho Choi, Soeng-Hun Kim, Kyeong-In Jeong, Jung-Soo Jung, Chae-Gwon Lim
  • Patent number: 10477752
    Abstract: An agricultural row unit for use with a towing frame hitched to a tractor includes an attachment frame adapted to be rigidly connected to the towing frame, a linkage pivotably coupled to the attachment frame, and a row unit frame having a leading end pivotably coupled to the linkage to permit vertical pivoting movement of the row unit frame relative to the attachment frame. A hydraulic cylinder coupled to the attachment frame and the linkage, for urging the row unit frame downwardly toward the soil, includes a movable ram extending into the cylinder, and a hydraulic-fluid cavity within the cylinder for receiving pressurized hydraulic fluid for advancing the ram in a direction that pivots the linkage and the row unit frame downwardly toward the soil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Dawn Equipment Company
    Inventor: Joseph D. Bassett
  • Patent number: 10477753
    Abstract: An agricultural planter includes systems, methods, and apparatuses for maintaining down force pressure at row units of the planter. The row units may include an electric linear actuator connected to linkages of the row units to maintain a down force pressure for the row unit. The linkage may also be removed and replaced with a strut or like mechanism to apply a direct down force pressure to components of the row unit. One or more sensors can be included to obtain information related to the ground to automatically adjust the amount of down force provided based upon a ground characteristic in order to maintain a substantially uniform furrow depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Kinze Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Courtney N. Achen, Marvin Bachman, Rhett Schildroth, Merlan Rolffs, Michael J. Myers, John Kollman, John P. Mulherin
  • Patent number: 10477754
    Abstract: An agricultural machine has a symmetrical chassis hydraulically transformable between a folded transport configuration and two unfolded configurations, using articulated beams. An air seeder example has a primary beam linking a tractor to a hopper-carrying trailer, also locating the chassis. Machinery such as seed openers is held in frames pivoted from the tertiary beams. In all configurations except completely folded, lateral chains that are maintained tight with a hydraulically powered tensioning system having sideways compliance maintain the tertiary beams and frame-supported machinery in a symmetrical configuration to each side of the primary beam, when working.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: ROTACON ENGINEERING LIMITED
    Inventor: Nicolaas Laurisse Sieling
  • Patent number: 10477755
    Abstract: An agricultural implement includes a frame having a longitudinal axis and laterally opposed sides and motive supports mounted to and supporting the frame. The agricultural implement further includes a first wing carried by the frame and at least one second wing, in which each second wing is pivotably connected to the first wing. The agricultural implement also includes an elevator mechanism configured to raise and lower the first wing and the second wing. Each second wing is connected to the first wing by a wing pivot assembly that includes a skewed hinge pivotably connecting one of the second wings to the first wing. The wing pivot assembly allows each second wing to pivot with respect to the first wing between an operating position and a transport position, in which the skewed hinge defines a first pivot axis oriented at an acute angle with respect to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: UNVERFERTH MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ronald Joseph Schlimgen, August Paul Nelson
  • Patent number: 10477756
    Abstract: Inaccurate agronomic data may be identified and corrected by obtaining agronomic data indicating areas of sub-regions of a farmable region and value for the sub-regions, wherein the value for each sub-region includes an aggregate value of an agronomic parameter for the sub-region and/or a ratio of the aggregate value to the area of the sub-region; identifying a part of a first sub-region that overlaps a part of a second sub-region; determining whether the second sub-region is associated with a first pass or a second pass by a sensor through the overlapping parts; and if the second sub-region is associated with the second pass, determining an adjusted value for the second sub-region based on the value for the first sub-region, the value for the second sub-region, the area of the first sub-region, the area of the second sub-region, and/or an area of the overlapping parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Inventors: Ryan Richt, Jason Michael Rute, Joel Phillip Skelton
  • Patent number: 10477757
    Abstract: A dual-disk seed meter for a planter may include a housing defining a first seed chamber configured to receive first seeds of a first seed type and a second seed chamber configured to receive second seeds of a second seed type. The seed meter may also include a first seed disk rotatable within the housing to convey the first seeds from the first seed chamber, a second seed disk rotatable within the housing to convey the second seeds from the second seed chamber, and a drive assembly configured to simultaneously rotate the first and second seed disks. In addition, the seed meter may include a seed deflector movable relative to the first seed disk and/or the second seed disk to control which of the seed types is discharged from the housing based on a selected seed type to be delivered by the seed meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Schoeny, Brian Anderson, Chad M. Johnson
  • Patent number: 10477758
    Abstract: A seed meter for planting multiple types of seed and rapidly switching between the types being planted in a single planting pass of a planting session of row-crop planting has a segmented seed meter reservoir with multiple seed meter chambers arranged between two pairs of seed disks that may be parallel to each other or angled with respect to each other to define an X-shaped arrangement of the seed disks in the seed meter. Activation and deactivation of the seed disks within the seed meter are synchronized to selectively deliver a single one of the multiple types of seed from the respective seed meter chamber for delivery out of a single seed tube of the seed meter, which may provide absolute and instantaneous on-the-go seed switching within a single row from each seed meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Keith W. Wendte, Brian T. Adams
  • Patent number: 10477759
    Abstract: A grass mower includes a vehicle speed instruction value calculation section (53) for generating a vehicle speed instruction value including a maximal vehicle speed, based on an operational position of a man-operable vehicle speed controlling tool (15), a mode selection section (70) for selecting a control mode from a plurality of control modes, a control table (52) in which a plurality of control parameters are set, a vehicle speed control target value calculation section (54) configured to calculate a vehicle speed control target value, based on a vehicle speed instruction value generated by the vehicle speed instruction value calculation section (53) and a selected control parameter corresponding to the control mode selected by the mode selection section (70), a cutter blade control target value calculation section (55) configured to calculate a rotational speed control target value for a cutter blade (30), based on the selected control parameter, and a cutter blade control section (4B) configured to contr
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuaki Matsuda, Katsuhiko Uemura, Hirokazu Ito, Yasuhiro Manji