US Patent Issued on Feb. 10 for "System for transferring crop materials from a harvester in a confined area of an agricultural field" (South Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,523, issued on Feb. 10.

"System for transferring crop materials from a harvester in a confined area of an agricultural field" was invented by Travis Hughes (Andover, S.D.) and Brandon Alberts (Langford, S.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A harvesting system may include a harvester apparatus defining an onboard storage structure and having a primary movement direction, and including a harvesting head and a crop material conveying structure for conveying the crop materials from the storage structure to a crop transporting vehicle. The conveying structure may have an auger assembly with an inboard end and an outboard end, and a dispens...