ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,151, issued on June 30, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).
"Work vehicle with flexible power take-off shield" was invented by Nikhil Gupta (Hoshiarpur, India) and James Gessel (Geneseo, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work vehicle includes: a chassis; a housing carried by the chassis and including a cowl; a power take-off extending through the cowl and configured to connect to a power source; and an attachment movably coupled to the housing and including: at least one driven element coupled to the power take-off; and a shield assembly associated with and covering the power take-off. The shield assemb...