ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,292, issued on May 13, was assigned to Tritana Intellectual Property Ltd. (Saskatoon, Canada).
"Weed seed destruction" was invented by Dean Mayerle (Saskatoon, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Weed seeds are destroyed in the chaff from a combine harvester by repeated high speed impacts caused by a rotor which accelerates the discarded seeds in a direction centrifugally away from the rotor mounted on a driven shaft onto a stator. Thus the discarded seeds rebound back and forth between the rotor and the stator to provide a plurality of impacts. The destructor is formed in two parts with one part mounted on or coaxially with a suit...