ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,052, issued on April 14, was assigned to LEMKEN GmbH & Co. KG (Alpen, Germany).

"Soil cultivation device" was invented by Martin Gebbeken (Alpen, Germany), Christian PaeBens (Issum, Germany), Simon Belker (Coesfeld, Germany), Mark Berendsen (Lengel, Netherlands) and Dieter Werries (Alpen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roller for agricultural soil cultivation has at least one support body rotatably mounted about an axis of rotation and multiple compaction rings arranged spaced apart from one another next to one another on the support body and intermediate rings arranged between adjacent compaction rings. At least two inter...