ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,862, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HUSQVARNA AB (Huskvarna, Sweden).

"Snow removal device with continuously rotatable discharge chute" was invented by Kenneth Mandeville (Midland, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A snow removal device may include a chassis supporting a power unit, a mobility assembly operably coupled to the chassis to provide mobility for the snow removal device responsive to power provision from the power unit, a working assembly configured to move snow to an ejection path responsive to power provision from the power unit, and a chute assembly forming a portion of the ejection path, the chute assembly compri...