US Patent Issued to CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen on June 23 for "Self-propelled forage harvester and method for operating a forage harvester" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,751, issued on June 23, was assigned to CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH (Harsewinkel, Germany).

"Self-propelled forage harvester and method for operating a forage harvester" was invented by Christoph Heitmann (Warendorf, Germany), Dennis Neitemeier (Lippetal, Germany), Markus Brune (Harsewinkel, Germany), Gregor Wehner (Ostrach Unterweiler, Germany), Sebastian Harsch (Bad Saulgau, Germany), Ingo Bonig (Gutersloh, Germany) and Marwin Klein-Heimkamp (Bramsche, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-propelled forage harvester is disclosed that includes a blade sharpening and shear bar adjusting device, a monitoring devic...