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Todd Swanson — 69 Patents

PPPrecision Planting: 59 patents #4 of 81Top 5%
CLClimate: 5 patents #49 of 214Top 25%
SNSmith & Nephew: 1 patents #875 of 1,122Top 80%
Morton, IL: #4 of 245 inventorsTop 2%
Illinois: #414 of 84,256 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #29,979 of 4,157,543Top 1%
69 Patents All Time
Todd Swanson has been granted 69 US patents while listed as an inventor at Precision Planting. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in December 2025. Todd Swanson ranks #29,979 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.72%). Patent records list Todd Swanson in Morton, IL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 17 patents in 2024.peak 172003: 1 patents20032006: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152017: 1 patents2018: 4 patents20182019: 2 patents2020: 11 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 5 patents20222023: 14 patents2024: 17 patents20242025: 9 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 69 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12501845 Seed trench closing sensors Dale Koch, Jason Stoller, Michael Strnad, Matthew Morgan, Ian Radtke +2 more 2025-12-23
12343694 Agricultural sampling system and related methods Kent Levy, Timothy Schaefer, Riley Litwiller, Reid Harman, Joshua SEELYE +3 more 2025-07-01
12345697 Agricultural sampling system and related methods Timothy Schaefer, Riley Litwiller 2025-07-01
12313619 Agricultural sampling system and related methods Timothy Schaefer, Riley Litwiller 2025-05-27
12279541 Agricultural trench depth systems, methods, and apparatus Dillon Sloneker, Dale Koch 2025-04-22
12279546 Agricultural trench depth sensing systems, methods, and apparatus Dale Koch, Michael Strnad 2025-04-22
12281968 Agricultural sampling system and related methods Dale Koch, Kent Levy, Matthew O'Neall, Reid Harman 2025-04-22
12245542 Systems, implements, and methods for seed orientation with adjustable singulators during planting Dale Koch, Jeremy Hodel, Ian Radtke 2025-03-11
12185661 Agricultural trench depth sensing systems, methods, and apparatus Dale Koch, Adam Vaccari, Dexter Travis, Reid Harman 2025-01-07
12163869 Agricultural sampling system and related methods Dale Koch, Kent Levy, Matthew O'Neall, Reid Harman 2024-12-10
12150406 Methods and imaging systems for harvesting Aaron Herrmann, Jason Stoller 2024-11-26
12140509 Agricultural sampling system and related methods Dale Koch, Reid Harman 2024-11-12
12137628 Agricultural trench depth sensing systems, methods, and apparatus Dale Koch 2024-11-12
12104988 Agricultural sampling system and related methods Dale Koch, Kent Levy, Matthew O'Neall, Reid Harman, Timothy Schaefer +1 more 2024-10-01
12090475 Analytical cartridge for soil testing and related methods Dale Koch, Adam Vaccari 2024-09-17
12089527 Systems, implements, and methods for seed orientation within agricultural fields Dale Koch, Jeremy Hodel, Ian Radtke 2024-09-17
12066359 Agricultural sampling system and related methods Dale Koch, Kent Levy, Matthew O'Neall, Hayden Splechter, Reid Harman +2 more 2024-08-20
12055557 Agricultural sampling system and related methods Dale Koch, Hayden Splechter, Timothy Schaefer 2024-08-06
12038355 Agricultural sampling system and related methods Dale Koch, Reid Harman 2024-07-16
12031996 Agricultural sampling system and related methods Dale Koch, Kent Levy, Matthew O'Neall, Reid Harman, Timothy Schaefer +1 more 2024-07-09
12031970 Agricultural sampling system and related methods Timothy Schaefer, Riley Litwiller 2024-07-09
12000853 Agricultural sampling, sample preparation and analysis system and related methods Dale Koch, Hayden Splechter, Timothy Schaefer 2024-06-04
11963490 Implements, systems, and methods for applying stress to early stage agricultural plants of agricultural fields Jason Stoller 2024-04-23
11917937 Seed injector Jason Stoller, Jeremy Hodel, Kent Levy, Ian Radtke 2024-03-05
11871694 Crop input variety selection systems, methods, and apparatus Luke Stuber, Timothy Schaefer 2024-01-16

Frequent Collaborators

Dale Koch42 shared
Jason Stoller16 shared
Kent Levy15 shared
Jeremy Hodel14 shared
Ian Radtke13 shared
Timothy Schaefer11 shared

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