US Patent Issued to Wirtgen on Sept. 30 for "Interchangeable unit for texturing ground surface work and road construction machine having such an interchangeable unit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,792, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Wirtgen GmbH (Windhagen, Germany).

"Interchangeable unit for texturing ground surface work and road construction machine having such an interchangeable unit" was invented by Sebastian Winkels (Windeck, Germany) and Dieter Bungarten (Neustadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an interchangeable unit (28) for material-removing work on a subsoil (U) starting from ground surface (A), the interchangeable unit (28) being designed for operational physical and functional coupling to a machine frame (12) of a road construction machine (10), the interchangeable un...