US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on July 21 for "Grain tank sump for agricultural vehicle" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,259, issued on July 21, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Grain tank sump for agricultural vehicle" was invented by Michael Minnich (Elizabethtown, Pa.), Denver Yoder (Manheim, Pa.) and Ashutosh Tamrakar (Conshohocken, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clean grain tank for an agricultural harvester includes a grain tank with a sump a vertical auger having an end that is positioned within the sump of the grain tank for removing clean grain from the sump, and at least one cross-auger arranged in a trough and configured to convey the grain into the sump. The sump is partially encompassed by walls, one of...