US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on April 21 for "Cleaning assembly for a combine harvester" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,804, issued on April 21, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Cleaning assembly for a combine harvester" was invented by Daniel Jung (Saarbrucken, Germany), Martin Rittershofer (Zweibrucken, Germany), Kevin P. Hurley (East Moline, Ill.), Yogesh Chande (Bettendorf, Iowa) and Michael Tupper (Bettendorf, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning assembly for a combine harvester. The cleaning assembly includes a conveyor for transporting at least one of or both of a threshed or separated mixture of grain and contaminants from at least one of or both of a threshing or separating device to an inlet of the cleaning assembly, s...