ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,501, issued on March 17, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).
"Windrow picker with hold-down devices" was invented by Mike Rathmer (Velen-Ramsdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A windrow picker is equipped with a supporting frame movable in a forward direction across a field. The frame having mounted thereon a pick-up drum, an output conveyor and a first rocker. The first rocker is mounted at its upper, rearward end on the frame so as to be pivotable about a transversely extending axis of rotation. A second rocker is hinged to the first rocker at the lower, front end of the first rocker at a mounting so as to be...