ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,609, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Hamm AG (Tirschenreuth, Germany).
"Wheel assembly for a soil compactor" was invented by Christian Wurner (Tirschenreuth, Germany), Rainer Krockauer (Plossberg, Germany) and Gerhard Mahler (Windischeschenbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel assembly for a soil compactor comprises a plurality of wheels (20) mounted in succession on a main wheel carrier (24) in the direction of an operating wheel axis of rotation (B), wherein at least one third wheel, which is arranged between a first wheel and a second wheel in the direction of the operating wheel axis of rotation (B), forms an auxi...