US Patent Issued to AGCO International on Nov. 4 for "Combine harvester with system and method for removing accumulated material from a feederhouse" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,931, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).

"Combine harvester with system and method for removing accumulated material from a feederhouse" was invented by Thomas Smed Bojsen (Randers, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combine harvester includes a feederhouse mounted to a chassis adapted at a front end to support a crop gathering header, a duct mounted on the feederhouse that is connected to a crop conveying passage of the feederhouse via a set of suction openings, a set of vent openings in the duct, each of the vent openings having a respective closure element movable between an ope...