ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,616, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG (Damme, Germany).
"Root crop harvester" was invented by Julian Ross (Eslohe, Germany) and Wolfram Strothmann (Osnabruck, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A root crop harvester is provided, including a feed conveyor device for conveying conveyable material consisting of harvested crop and additional materials in a feed conveying direction. The root crop harvester also includes a separating device having at least one separating element for separating the additional materials from the harvested crop. The separating device has a conveyable material sen...