ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,512, issued on July 29.

"Agricultural header with foldable transport wheel assembly" was invented by David M. DeChristopher (Ephrata, Pa.), Renato Ribeiro (Campo Largo, Brazil) and Seth Bietz (Bettendorf, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural header for an agricultural vehicle includes: a header frame; at least one cutter carried by the header frame and configured to cut crop material; and a transport assembly coupled to the header frame. The transport assembly includes: a first arm coupled to the header frame and including a first wheel mount configured to mount a first transport wheel thereto; a second arm pivotably c...