US Patent Issued to ESCO GROUP on Feb. 17 for "Wear assembly, digging edge and inserts for earth working equipment" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,222, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ESCO GROUP LLC (Portland, Ore.).

"Wear assembly, digging edge and inserts for earth working equipment" was invented by Joel S. Hankland (Canby, Ore.), Bruce C. Bingham (West Linn, Ore.) and Scott H. Zenier (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wear assembly for attaching a wear member to a base, wherein the wear member includes a pair of legs to straddle the base and a bight portion between the legs. The bight portion includes two rearwardly-converging side surfaces and a central surface extending therebetween. The central surface may have a non-linear extension between the side surf...