ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,590, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).
"Rigid cutterbar over travel" was invented by Blaine Noll (Fleetwood, Pa.), Joel Cook (Akron, Pa.), Nathaniel Smith (Lancaster, Pa.), Herb Farley (Elizabethtown, Pa.), Jethro Martin (Ephrata, Pa.) and Scott Deichmann (Phoenixville, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutter bar assembly for an agricultural vehicle header includes a cutter bar supported by movable arms extending from a header frame and capable of operation in flex and rigid modes. The support arms are joined to the header frame such that they may be displaced from a raised positio...