US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on July 21 for "Agricultural header reel with adjustable shape" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,263, issued on July 21, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Agricultural header reel with adjustable shape" was invented by Bryan R Yanke (Eldridge, Iowa) and Shreyas P. Modak (Thane, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example agricultural header may include a reel section coupled to a wing of an agricultural header. The reel section may include one or more bat tube supports at one or more locations along a length of the reel section, one or more bat tubes coupled the bat tube supports, and one or more linkages. A linkage is operably coupled to one of the bat tubes. A shape of the bat tube at one or more locations there...