ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,825, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG (Spelle, Germany).

"Collecting apparatus for round bales" was invented by Nils Bruhn (Spelle, Germany), Christian Osthues (Horstel, Germany), Dirk Blome (Loningen, Germany), Andre Berghaus (Billerbeck, Germany) and Michael Kreyenhagen (Bohmte, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a collecting apparatus for round bales. The collecting apparatus has a frame device and a conveying device, which is designed to convey a plurality of round bales relative to the frame device in a conveying direction. The conveying device co...