ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,373, issued on June 10, was assigned to Hainan University (Haikou, China).

"Combine harvester for seed production and multiplication of grains with automatic cleaning function" was invented by Yiren Qing (Hainan, China), Lu Chen (Hainan, China), Ranbing Yang (Hainan, China), Xiantao Zha (Hainan, China), Songmei Yang (Hainan, China) and Jian Zhang (Hainan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combine harvester for seed production and multiplication of grains with automatic cleaning function includes a machine body. The machine body includes a header for harvesting grain plants, and a cleaning device mounted on the header for cleanin...