ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,281, issued on May 27, was assigned to Amazonen-Werke H. Dreyer SE & Co. KG (Hasbergen, Germany).
"Distribution device for granular material" was invented by Jan-Eike Luebben (Edewecht, Germany), Thomas Wien (Stuhr, Germany) and Jan Flucke (Hude, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distribution device for granular material having: a distributor housing which has a material inlet opening for the granular material; at least one conveying air duct, situated in the distributor housing, for a material-free conveying air flow, the conveying air duct being connected within the distributor housing to a grain-holding region within which ...