US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on May 26 for "Fluted rotor" (Indiana, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,612, issued on May 26, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Fluted rotor" was invented by Roy Bittner (Reedsville, Wis.) and Kenneth Bittner (Haubstadt, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural thresher rotor comprising: a main body extending along a rotation axis in a processing direction from a front main body end to a rear main body end; a rotor transition surface extending from the front main body end and tapered to decrease in cross-sectional size, as viewed along the rotation axis, away from the main body; and at least one impeller extending away from the rotation axis from the rotor transit...