US Patent Issued to AGCO International on July 21 for "Combine harvesters having reversible return systems, and related methods" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,268, issued on July 21, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).

"Combine harvesters having reversible return systems, and related methods" was invented by Alastair Cameron Morrison (Randers, Denmark) and Morten Leth Bilde (Langaa, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combine harvester includes a feederhouse configured to convey a crop material from a harvesting header, a threshing system configured to receive the crop material from the feederhouse and separate straw therefrom, and a cleaning system below the threshing system and configured to separate grain from chaff of the crop material. The cleaning s...