ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,029, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Knife holder for counterknife bank assembly for combine harvester" was invented by Cooper Linde (Lancaster, Pa.), Nathan E. Isaac (Lancaster, Pa.) and Shubham Choudhary (Ghaziabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A knife holder for a knife bank of an agricultural vehicle. The knife holder includes a body having opposing legs separated by a channel, wherein the channel is sized for receiving a shaft to which the knife holder is mounted; a mount for mounting the body to a knife element; and an opening for receiving a fastener for mounting the bod...