ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,412, issued on May 12.

"Overhead animal feed loading, transporting and mixing system" was invented by Albert Posthumus (Stephenville, Texas) and Ben Posthumus (Stephenville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments disclosed herein, there is provided a system for loading, mixing and transporting feed. The system includes a scoop assembly and a mixing tub that are movable overhead a series of storage bays. The scoop assembly may retrieve commodities from the storage bays and load measured quantities of the commodities into the mixing tub."

The patent was filed on July 5, 2024, under Application No. 18/764,732.

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