ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,989, issued on July 29, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).
"Baling apparatus" was invented by Steffen Hoffmann (Wolfenbuttel, Germany) and Malte Cornelius Schlichting (Wolfenbuttel, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a tractor/baler combination includes advancing a tractor/baler combination through a swath or windrow of a harvested crop material with a tractor PTO operating at a constant speed to power a drive of a baling chamber of the baler and the baler operating to pick up harvested crop material; assessing the flowrate of the harvested crop material in the baler and the ...