US Patent Issued to Lehner Maschinenbau on Feb. 3 for "Apparatus and method for producing hulled spelt seeds" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,517, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Lehner Maschinenbau GmbH (Westerstetten, Germany).

"Apparatus and method for producing hulled spelt seeds" was invented by Ralf Huebner (Westerstetten, Germany) and Helmut Lehner (Westerstetten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a hulling apparatus for producing hulled spelt seed including a lower course hulling device, and a method for producing hulled seed of a spelt grain, the hulling apparatus contains two disks, as rotor and stator, which are movable relative to each other, wherein at least one disk can be driven about a vertical rotation axis, and the disks enclose a flat annular wo...