US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on June 30 for "Access door with integral crop deflector for a combine harvester and method of manufacturing the same" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,049, issued on June 30, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Access door with integral crop deflector for a combine harvester and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Brian Gorge (Colona, Ill.) and Manish Singh (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access door for a combine harvester includes a body having a top, a bottom, a first side, and a second side. The body includes a height defined between the top and the bottom and a width defined between the first side and the second side. A plurality of ribs is integrally formed in the body for adding rigidity thereto, and a deflector is integrally formed with...