US Patent Issued to Joseph Voegele on April 8 for "Channel plate arrangement for a road finishing machine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,160, issued on April 8, was assigned to Joseph Voegele AG (Ludwigshafen/Rhein, Germany).

"Channel plate arrangement for a road finishing machine" was invented by Martin Buschmann (Neustadt, Germany), Frank Grimm (Edingen-Neckarhausen, Germany), Bernhard Erdtmann (Mannheim, Germany), Thomas Seither (Waldsee, Germany), Alessandro De Santis (Lambsheim, Germany), Nicole Angermann (Bruehl, Germany) and Christian Jenewein (Mannheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A channel plate arrangement for a road finishing machine comprises an extension means including a first channel plate which is movably mounted in a horizontal direction wi...