US Patent Issued to Graco Minnesota on May 5 for "Pavement grinding drum having modular bit mountings" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,205, issued on May 5, was assigned to Graco Minnesota Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Pavement grinding drum having modular bit mountings" was invented by James C. Schroeder (Ramsey, Minn.), Daniel D. Rohling (Corcoran, Minn.) and Roland M. Bedard (Lindstrom, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pavement grinder is configured to rotate to remove pavement. The pavement grinder includes a pavement grinding drum with bit mountings mounted to the pavement grinding drum. The bit mountings are individually removable from and replaceable on the drum. The bit mountings each include a bit that is configured to engage with the pavement to remove pavement...