US Patent Issued to AGCO on Oct. 27 for "Sensor placement on swathboard of mower" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,928, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Sensor placement on swathboard of mower" was invented by Kevin J. Hamilton (Newton, Kan.), James Kraus (Hesston, Kan.) and Patrick Kendrick (Hesston, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mower is configured to cut plant material as the mower moves over a field and deposits the cut plant material on the field. The mower includes a header assembly having a cutter bed, conditioning rollers, and a swathboard, the swathboard being positionable to shape a rearwardly-directed stream of cut plant material into windrows. The header assembly includes a sensor system mounted on...