ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,713, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).
"Fan assembly for a cleaning device of a combine harvester" was invented by Dhairya Sankhla (Pune, India), Kiran Kumar Mayya (Pune, India) and Nicholas J. Keener (Geneseo, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan assembly for a cleaning device of a combine harvester includes a fan rotor, a housing which accommodates the fan rotor and defines an air inlet opening through which the fan rotor is inserted during assembly, and an inlet ring, which extends radially inward from the air inlet opening of the housing. A retaining ring is fastened to the housing and is e...