ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,741, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Harvesting machine belt pickup header with movable pickup belt assembly" was invented by Snehalrao Jadhav (Satara, India), Glenn E. Pope (Viola, Ill.), Aaron S. Ritter (Milan, Ill.), Duane M. Bomleny (Geneseo, Ill.), Bradley K. Yanke (Eldridge, Iowa) and Aniruddha Patankar (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A header for an agricultural work vehicle including a feeder house is provided, with the header operable to move crop material in a forward feed direction during a crop processing operation and in a reverse feed direction during a declogging operatio...