ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,093, issued on May 5, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).

"Cleaning systems for combine harvesters having airbags or other movable side members, and related methods" was invented by Alastair Cameron Morrison (Randers, Denmark), Morten Leth Bilde (Langaa, Denmark) and Jonas Toft Andersen (Randers, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning system for a combine harvester has a chaffer and a blower configured to direct air rearward and upward through the chaffer. The chaffer has a perforated base, a plurality of longitudinal lateral walls, and a plurality of airbags, each of which is disposed adjacent ...