ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,790, issued on May 20, was assigned to Carl Geringhoff GmbH & Co. KG (Ahlen, Germany).
"Cutting unit having sensors for height control" was invented by Jochen Scharmann (Warendorf, Germany), Raphael Stuckmann (Drensteinfurt, Germany), Dirk Webermann (Senden, Germany) and Steffen Sudhues (Ahlen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention related to a cutting unit for attachment to the height-adjustable intake duct of a harvester. In order to improve the sensor-supported height guidance of cutting units it is proposed to provide at least one additional load sensor which measures the load with which the cutting unit lo...