ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,376, issued on March 3, was assigned to Top-Siloconstructions B.V. (Aalten, Netherlands).
"Method for setting up a silo" was invented by Herman Hendrik Johan Wassink (Aalten, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a silo hopper with a hopper opening for connection to a silo cell with a rectangular cross-section. The silo hopper includes a hopper wall which encloses the hopper opening. The hopper wall extends from an upper plane to a lower plane lying parallel thereto and tapers from a rectangular upper cross-section in the upper plane to a smaller lower cross-section in the lower plane. The silo hopper is self-support...