ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,611, issued on July 7, was assigned to Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG (Spelle, Germany).
"Round baler" was invented by Josef Horstmann (Ibbenburen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A round baler includes a feed channel leading to a pressing chamber, a transfer device with a transfer rotor driven about a transfer axis in a chamber feed direction to convey harvested material through the feed channel towards the pressing chamber, and a storage device with a storage space for temporarily receiving harvested material. So the round baler can continuously receive harvested material, the storage device comprises a storage s...