ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,060, issued on April 14, was assigned to Tritana Intellectual Property Ltd. (Saskatoon, Canada).
"Weed seed destruction" was invented by Dean Mayerle (Saskatoon, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Weed seeds are destroyed in the chaff from a combine harvester by repeated high speed impacts caused by a rotor mounted in one of a pair of side by side housings which accelerate the discarded seeds in a direction centrifugally away from the rotor onto a stator including angularly adjustable stator surfaces around the axis. Thus the discarded seeds rebound back and forth between the rotor and the stator to provide a plurality of impacts...