US Patent Issued to AGCO on June 23 for "Grain cleaning system for a combine harvester" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,757, issued on June 23, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Grain cleaning system for a combine harvester" was invented by Kye J. Kurkowski (Hesston, Kan.), Tyler Gleason (Hesston, Kan.), Eric Wane Bolton (Buhler, Kan.) and Clay Reinecke (Hesston, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grain cleaning apparatus for a combine harvester has a linkage system for moving a grain pan or sieve with an oscillatory movement. A configuration of the linkage system is adjusted for example in dependence on a lateral inclination of the combine harvester, in particular by setting the position of a pair of arms of the linkage system, so that so...