ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,839, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CLAAS Saulgau GmbH (Bad Saulgau, Germany).

"Slide bearing joint bush for a harvesting device" was invented by Niklas Loffler (Hohentengen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Harvesting device of an agricultural harvesting machine, comprising a housing (17), comprising at least one rotatably driven apparatus (15) which has a shaft (18) and is rotatably mounted by the shaft (18) relative to the housing (17) about the longitudinal axis (19) thereof, comprising a sealing disk (21) which acts on the housing (17) and which is fixed relative to the shaft (18) for sealing the housing (17) relative ...