ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,549, issued on May 20, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).
"Heat shield for exhaust system" was invented by David Salvadori (Beauvais, France), Christophe Leonard (Beauvais, France) and Valentin Bousselet (Beauvais, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The shield has a housing enclosing part of the exhaust system and including air vents to enable hot air from the exhaust to escape from the housing. A base of the housing includes a tiered discharge plate arrangement having at least two tiers of vertically spaced plates. The tiered arrangement has a lower tier in the form of a continuous plate and an uppe...