US Patent Issued to Tritana Intellectual Property on Sept. 8 for "Weed seed destruction in a combine harvester having a straw spreading section and a weed seed destructor with a guide component for directing the crop material" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,535, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Tritana Intellectual Property Ltd. (Saskatoon, Canada).

"Weed seed destruction in a combine harvester having a straw spreading section and a weed seed destructor with a guide component for directing the crop material" 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 surf...