US Patent Issued to AGCO on Dec. 30 for "Divider points, harvesting headers configured to receive removable divider points, and related methods" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,631, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Divider points, harvesting headers configured to receive removable divider points, and related methods" was invented by Randall Lohrentz (Buhler, Kan.) and William H. Thompson (Hesston, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A harvesting header includes a header frame structured to be coupled to a crop-harvesting machine, dividers at each end of the header frame, and at least one harvesting tool carried by the header frame between the first divider and the second divider. Each divider defines a tube therein structured to slidingly receive a divider point, Latches are con...