ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,667, issued on May 13, was assigned to Hamm AG (Tirschenreuth, Germany).
"Soil processing machine" was invented by Josef Dagner (Altenstadt, Germany), Thomas Klein (Mitterteich, Germany), Stefan Braunschlager (Barnau, Germany), Ronny Pieske (Zwonitz, Germany) and Markus Golbs (Adorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soil processing machine, in particular a soil compactor, comprises a machine frame and a casing (26, 28) carried on the machine frame and/or at least partially providing it and bounding a unit receptacle space (24), wherein the casing (26, 28) has a cooling air inlet area (30) and a cooling air outlet area (32) fo...