ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,712, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CNH Industrial Belgium N.V. (Belgium).
"Header" was invented by Jeffrey Blancke (Markegem, Belgium), Simon Beelaert (Adegem, Belgium), Frederik Demon (Sint-Kruis, Belgium) and Stijn Van Belleghem (Maldegem, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural harvester includes a header with a pickup mechanism for picking up crop from a field and a feeder for feeding the crop into the agricultural harvester for further processing. The feeder is pivotably connected to a chassis of the agricultural harvester via at least one lift cylinder. The header is connected to the feeder for pivoting th...