ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,739, issued on March 17, was assigned to HAMM AG (Tirschenreuth, Germany).

"Roller tool for a ground processing roller" was invented by Matthias Meier (Tirschenreuth, Germany), Gunter Rath (Krummennaab, Germany), Johannes Malzer (Tirschenreuth, Germany) and Stefan Bauml (Tirschenreuth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roller tool for a soil processing roller includes a tool carrier to be fixed to an outer circumferential side of a carrier jacket and has a tethering area for fixedly tethering the tool carrier to an outer circumferential surface of the carrier jacket and an interchangeable holder clamping region, an interchang...