US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on July 1 for "Roof of an operator compartment for a vehicle" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,316, issued on July 1, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Roof of an operator compartment for a vehicle" was invented by Shrikant Joshi (Pune, India), Pandharinath N. More (Pune, India), Ganesh Mali (Pune, India) and Jesse R. Neely (Annawan, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roof of a vehicle, such as an agricultural vehicle, may include a first roof panel and a second roof panel. The first roof panel and the second roof panel may be connected along an interface the defines a passageway. The first roof panel and the second roof panel may define a path extending generally longitudinally along the roof with the first roof ...