US Patent Issued to AGCO on Feb. 24 for "Solid distribution systems for an agricultural spreader" (Iowa, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,728, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Solid distribution systems for an agricultural spreader" was invented by Evan Thomas Smith (Spirit Lake, Iowa) and David Pell (Jackson, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid distribution system of an agricultural spreader includes a product hopper configured to contain solid particulate material, a blower, a manifold coupled to the blower and having a plurality of outlets, at least one boom arm comprising a plurality of parallel rigid tubes configured to carry the solid particulate material and air from the blower, and a plurality of hoses. The manifold is conf...