US Patent Issued to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY on March 31 for "Corn ear picking roller structure for strengthening stem grabbing" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,596, issued on March 31, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Zibo, China).

"Corn ear picking roller structure for strengthening stem grabbing" was invented by Duanyang Geng (Zibo, China), Xiang Li (Zibo, China), Jida Wu (Zibo, China), Chengqian Jin (Zibo, China), Yanchun Yao (Zibo, China), Xiang Yin (Zibo, China) and Bolong Wang (Zibo, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A corn ear picking roller structure for strengthening stem grabbing includes a header, a seedling divider, a seedling pulling chain, a clamping chain, a seedling pressing plate, and an ear picking device. The seedling divider is connected to a front ...