US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Dec. 2 for "Wing flex assemblies for agricultural implements" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,465, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Wing flex assemblies for agricultural implements" was invented by Elijah B. Garner (Bettendorf, Iowa), Dnyanesh K. Dhobale (Maharashtra, India), Kamalakannan Natarajan (Pune, India) and Andrew W. Harmon (Geneseo, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wing flex assembly for a frame system of an agricultural implement that includes inner and outer tubes. The outer tube, to which tools of the implement are attached, is slidingly displaceable along the inner tube as the inner tube is downwardly pivotally displaced with a downward flex of a wing frame. A first tool of a ce...