US Patent Issued to MACDON INDUSTRIES on May 12 for "Stubble stomper with self-resetting breakaway feature" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,352, issued on May 12, was assigned to MACDON INDUSTRIES LTD. (Winnipeg, Canada).

"Stubble stomper with self-resetting breakaway feature" was invented by Scott Dietsche (Colfax, Wis.), Cyrus Nigon (Deforest, Wis.) and Reid Christ (Evansville, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stubble stomper is disclosed that attaches to a crop harvesting header on an agricultural machine. The stubble stomper includes a mounting bracket that attaches to the header frame of the crop harvesting header, a hinge assembly that is rotatably attached to the stomper mounting bracket and is rotatable between a default position and a breakaway position, and...