US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on April 29 for "Cross vented residue disposal system for an enclosed combine body" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,948, issued on April 29, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Cross vented residue disposal system for an enclosed combine body" was invented by Corwin M. Puryk (Bettendorf, Iowa), Volker Fuchs (Bettendorf, Iowa), Peter Mischler (Kaiserslautern, Germany), Gregor Diessner (Schweigen-Rechtenbach, Germany), Martin Rittershofer (Kaiserslautern, Germany) and Oliver Klein (Saarlouis, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combine harvester includes a housing having a rear hood and defining an interior, a blower for generating an air stream in a substantially rearward direction, and a cleaning system separating residue from a c...