ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,893, issued on July 15, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).
"Forage harvester replaceable wear plate" was invented by Wilhelm Tschirdewahn (Marktoberdorf, Germany) and Helge Lindenmuller (Windach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wear plate assembly for an agricultural harvester including a support element having a number of lateral regions, each lateral region being provided with a plurality of first engagement features, one or more replaceable wear plates provided on one side with a plurality of second engagement features for engagement with the first engagement features, and a plurality of fas...