ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,625, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Joseph Voegele AG (Ludwigshafen/Rhein, Germany).
"Road finishing machine with suction device" was invented by Martin Buschmann (Neustadt, Germany), Ralf Weiser (Ladenburg, Germany) and Roman Munz (Neustadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road finishing machine comprises a screed for producing a paving layer from a paving material, a material bunker for receiving the paving material, a longitudinal conveying device configured to transport the paving material from the material bunker toward the screed, and a transverse distributor auger configured to distribute the paving material transpo...