ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,768, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).

"Baling apparatus" was invented by Christian Adam (Wolfenbuttel, Germany), Tobias Keune (Wolfenbuttel, Germany) and Malte Cornelius Schlichting (Wolfenbuttel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A loading device for loading a roll of wrapping material into a feed device of a baler from which the wrapping material may be dispensed is disclosed. The loading device comprises a lateral channel supported at a first end by a first support and at a second end by a second support, a sliding member having first and second ends mounted for reciprocal m...