ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,068, issued on April 14, was assigned to Erik Hendriks Holding B.V. (Heythuysen, Netherlands).
"Sod harvester and method for automatically rolling up a slab of sod" was invented by Emanual Antonius Alphonsus Hendriks (Heythuysen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sod harvester for harvesting a slab of sod present on a piece of land, includes an arrangement for releasing the slab of sod from the piece of land a conveyor for conveying the slab of sod in a transport direction towards a roll-up mechanism for automatically rolling up the slab of sod, wherein the roll-up mechanism includes a moving surface that moves in a direc...