ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,430, issued on March 31, was assigned to Kueper GmbH & Co. KG (Bochum, Germany).
"Clearing strip for the clearing blade of a snowplow" was invented by Roland Kueper (Bochum, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is a clearing strip for the clearing blade of a snowplow, comprising a front steel plate and a rear steel plate, which can be jointly fastened to the bottom edge of the clearing blade by means of fastening screws and between which an elastic rubber body is disposed. A metal wear strip is vulcanized into the rubber body, wherein the strip protrudes out of the rubber body downward toward the surface to be cleared and ha...