ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,676, issued on March 25.
"Baling apparatus and method" was invented by Michael Jason Grady (Floravista, N.M.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Baling apparatus and method including a baling chamber having one or more splitting knives for dividing crop material picked up from a field to discharge divided bales simultaneously from the baling chamber to be received by an ejection chute structure which ejects the divided bales in spaced relation to each other as the baling apparatus is moved along the field. The spaced relation can be longitudinal by ejecting the divided bales at staggered time and/or can be laterally spaced by turning the...