ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,271, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The GSI Group LLC (Assumption, Ill.).
"Grain dryer with bypass air control" was invented by David R. Wingard (Decatur, Ill.), Randall E. Sheley (Assumption, Ill.) and Gregory J. Trame (Rochester, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grain dryer has pair of heating columns in communication with an upper plenum, and a pair of cooling columns in communication with a lower plenum. A heater is located between the lower plenum and the upper plenum, wherein air is heated by the heater as air in the lower plenum is pulled through the heater and into the upper plenum. As the grain flows into the coolin...