US 12,127,517 B2
Assured identity seeder
Michael Bailey, St. Louis, MO (US); Corey G Barth, St. Louis, MO (US); Wayne Brown, St. Louis, MO (US); William M Fischer, St. Louis, MO (US); Bradley D Hart, St. Louis, MO (US); Armen Kachar, St. Louis, MO (US); Krishna Motaparti, St. Louis, MO (US); Kyle B Smith, St. Louis, MO (US); Sudhager Subramaniam, St. Louis, MO (US); Ryan K Tellor, St. Louis, MO (US); and Matthew J Weis, St. Louis, MO (US)
Assigned to MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC, St. Louis, MO (US)
Appl. No. 17/296,248
Filed by Monsanto Technology LLC, St. Louis, MO (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 27, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/063608
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 23, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/117589, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 11, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/774,484, filed on Dec. 3, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0015304 A1, Jan. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. A01G 9/08 (2006.01)
CPC A01G 9/085 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A high throughput system for depositing seed into seed receptacles, said system comprising:
a seed distribution subsystem;
an individual seed transfer subsystem structured and operable to transfer individual seeds from wells in a seed storage tray to the seed deposition subsystem;
a bulk seed transfer subsystem structured and operable to singulate a plurality of bulk seeds and transfer each singulated seed to the seed deposition subsystem; and
the seed distribution subsystem structured and operable to receive seeds from the individual seed transfer subsystem and the bulk seed transfer subsystem, and deposit the seeds into seed receptacles.