US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America, CNH Industrial (Harbin) Machinery on May 12 for "Independent and suspended spreader hood and distribution deflector" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,354, issued on May 12, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.) and CNH Industrial (Harbin) Machinery Co. Ltd. (Harbin, China).

"Independent and suspended spreader hood and distribution deflector" was invented by Nathan E. Isaac (Lancaster, Pa.), Cooper Linde (Lancaster, Pa.) and Ziying Zhao (Harbin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crop residue spreader for an agricultural harvester having a spreader frame with counter-rotating impellers for discharging crop residue and a distribution deflector mounted in close proximity to the impellers for deflecting crop residue discharged by the impellers. A common stru...