US Patent Issued to CLAAS Saulgau on April 21 for "Maize header for a forage harvester, and forage harvester comprising such a maize header" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,806, issued on April 21, was assigned to CLAAS Saulgau GmbH (Bad Saulgau, Germany).

"Maize header for a forage harvester, and forage harvester comprising such a maize header" was invented by Josef Fischer (Biberach, Germany) and Patrick Popp (Schemmerhofen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A maize header comprising multiple mowing and infeed units (units 10), the first lateral mowing and infeed units (units 10b) are laterally next to central mowing and infeed units (units 10a), second lateral mowing and infeed units (units 10c) are laterally next to the first units (10b), and units (10d) are laterally next to the second units ...