ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,927, issued on April 29, was assigned to Clemens GmbH & Co. KG Weinbautechnik-Getranketechnik (Wittlich, Germany).

"Compensating device for working on a slope in viticulture" was invented by Bernhard Clemens (Greimerath, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine for soil tillage to be arranged on a towing vehicle, wherein when the towing vehicle is travelling in a travel direction an area of soil can be tilled with a soil tillage tool in an intermediate space between at least two obstacles, wherein the machine has a control device with which the soil tillage tool is pivotable into and out of the intermediate space and/or is mov...