ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,489, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).
"Return pan for an agricultural combine" was invented by Jonas Toft Andersen (Randers, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crop processing system in a combine harvester for directing grain and MOG on a return pan, having a crop processor arranged to thresh and separate grain from a crop stream, a return pan located below a rear portion of the crop processor to collect separated material falling from the crop processor and convey the material forward with respect to the normal forward direction of travel of the combine harvester, a plurality...