ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,591, issued on March 31, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Residue collector" was invented by Lucas Deruyter (Gits, Belgium), Frederik Tallir (Esen, Belgium), Geert Bonne (Damme, Belgium), Arno Leenknegt (Hooglede, Belgium), Bart M.A. Missotten (Herent, Belgium), Dre W.J. Jongmans (Klundert, Netherlands), Jasper Vanlerberghe (Aartrijke, Belgium), Pieter Van Overschelde (Sint-Andries, Belgium) and Sam Reubens (Sint-Michiels, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A residue collector is operable to receive residue from a combine harvester during a training harvesting operation. The residue collector inclu...