US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on July 28 for "Wet clutch" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,911, issued on July 28, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Wet clutch" was invented by Kyle A. Jennings (Wichita, Kan.) and Blake E. White (Independence, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wet clutch includes a first friction disk including a first friction material having a first arrangement of cooling channels with a first fluid distribution, a second friction disk including a second friction material having a second arrangement of cooling channels with a second fluid distribution, the second arrangement of cooling channels being different from the first arrangement of cooling channels, and a separator disk positio...