ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,743, issued on March 3, was assigned to SIMEX S.R.L. (San Giovanni in Presiceto, Italy).

"Excavating assembly for milling a road surface or ground" was invented by Mirco Risi (San Giovanni in Persiceto, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An excavating assembly for milling and/or scarifying a road surface or ground has a support structure that delimits a compartment housing a cutter rotatable about a cutter axis and a cutter movement unit. A support element, separate from the support structure, rests on the road surface or ground during milling operations. The cutter has a cutter axle extension protruding from the support structure,...