ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,266, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Cleaning assembly for a combine harvester" was invented by Dhairya Sankhla (Pune, India) and Daniel Jung (Saarbruecken, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning assembly for a combine harvester including a vibrating floor conveyor for conveying crops. The vibrating floor conveyor is moved into a vibrating movement and is supported at the conveyors downstream end by hangers on a cleaning shoe. At least one sieve is arranged in the cleaning shoe that can be moved into a vibrating movement, and which can be exposed to an air flow by a blower. A rotatable trans...