ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,044, issued on March 24, was assigned to AGCO DO BRASIL SA LTDA (Ribeireo Preto, Brazil).
"Automatic height control for sugarcane harvesters" was invented by Roque Eduardo Dapper (Canoas, Brazil), Renan Kadiama (Canoas, Brazil) and Gregorio Kaminski (Canoas, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sugarcane harvester includes a basecutter assembly for cutting sugarcane stalks from sugarcane plants; a chopping section for receiving the sugarcane stalks from the intake and cutting assembly and chopping the sugarcane stalks into billets; a discharge assembly for receiving the billets from the chopping section and discharging the billet...