US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on July 28 for "Harvesting attachment for whole plant harvesting" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,522, issued on July 28, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Harvesting attachment for whole plant harvesting" was invented by Maximilian Schroeder (Hettenleidelheim, Germany), Martin Huening (Billerbeck, Germany), Clemens Weitenberg (Borken, Germany), Jan-Dirk Schild (Coesfeld, Germany) and Ralf Leveling (Gronau Epe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A harvesting attachment for whole plant harvesting includes a pick-up for picking up plants from a field, a first transverse conveyor belt and a second transverse conveyor belt for conveying the plants picked up transversely in a direction toward of a longitudinal center pl...