ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,540, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Elevator assembly for an agricultural harvester with a storage hopper having a conveyor therein" was invented by Alessandro Roberto Pereira (Piracicaba, Brazil), Marcelo dos Santos de Oliveira Silva (Sorocaba, Brazil), Jean Carlos Pereira de Camargo (Piracicaba, Brazil) and Anderson Antonio Moreno (Piracicaba, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator assembly for a harvester may include an elevator housing and an elevator extending within the elevator housing between a proximal end and a distal end. As such, the elevator may be configur...