US Patent Issued to AGCO on Feb. 18 for "Mounting assembly for a steerable wheel with variable track width" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,838, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Mounting assembly for a steerable wheel with variable track width" was invented by Mark Aron Crowley (Jackson, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel-mounting assembly for a utility vehicle includes a chassis and a wheel support assembly mounted to respective outboard ends of first and second telescopic axle assemblies. The first and second telescopic axle assemblies are laterally spaced from one another and are each secured to the chassis. The first and second telescopic axle assemblies each include a respective actuator arranged to control extension and retrac...