US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on March 24 for "Crop residue distributor assembly for a combine harvester" (Indian, French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,034, issued on March 24, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Crop residue distributor assembly for a combine harvester" was invented by Ajit Kadam (Pune, India), Christina Fries (Nohfelden, Germany), Eric Pellegrini (Sarreguemines, France) and Tushar Narlawar (Chandrapur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crop residue distributor assembly for a combine harvester. The crop residue distributor includes a straw distributor hood, below which a number of adjustable vanes is arranged on both sides of a longitudinal median plane of the crop residue distributor assembly. A flow divider is arranged adjacent to the longitudinal ...