ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,067, issued on June 17, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).
"Reel power system" was invented by Bart M. A. Missotten (Herent, Belgium), Bart Lenaerts (Zutendaal, Belgium), Cory Douglas Hunt (Millersville, Pa.) and Pieter Van Overschelde (Sint-Andries, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reel power system for a header of an agricultural system includes an electrical generator having a stator and a rotor rotatably engaged with the stator. The stator is configured to be non-rotatably coupled to a support structure of a reel of the header. The rotor is configured to non-rotatably engage a base of the heade...