ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,939, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Feed accelerator for an agricultural harvester" was invented by Eric L. Bortner (Davenport, Iowa), Balaji Parthasarathy (Bettendorf, Iowa), Mark L. Mattson (Erie, Ill.), Manish Singh (Bokaro, India), Michael T. Meschke (Eldridge, Iowa) and Nithin Chaithanya Reddy Choudary (Bettendorf, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods of feed accelerators of agricultural harvesters include one or more convertible sections that are convertible between two or more types of agitator assemblies. The feed accelerators may include a cylindrical body that may form o...