US Patent Issued to AGCO on Jan. 13 for "Cutting tool mounted on divider of a harvesting header" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,748, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Cutting tool mounted on divider of a harvesting header" was invented by Tyler Gleason (Hesston, Kan.), Kye J Kurkowski (Hesston, Kan.), William H. Thompson (Hesston, Kan.) and Randall Lohrentz (Buhler, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting tool for a harvesting header includes a longitudinal member having a straight portion with a non-round cross-section, a hook coupled to the longitudinal member and configured to secure the longitudinal member to a divider of a harvesting header, and a cutting blade extending from the longitudinal member. A harvesting header ...