US Patent Issued to Vermeer Manufacturing on Sept. 15 for "Rotating infeed chute for a brush chipper" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,528, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Vermeer Manufacturing Co. (Pella, Iowa).

"Rotating infeed chute for a brush chipper" was invented by Stefan Klaassen (Wilhelminadorp, Netherlands), Dolph Cantrijn (Breda, Netherlands), Brian de Jong (Halsteren, Netherlands), Wouter van Wezel (Roosendaal, Netherlands), Nithy Nagendran (Middelburg, Netherlands), Rinodh Thandal Ramasubramanian (Middelburg, Netherlands), Hans van den Ende (Borssele, Netherlands) and Tim Traas (Heinkenszand, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A material reduction machine includes an infeed chute and a processing portion. The infeed chute has a plurality of...