US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on May 13 for "Header for harvesting stalk-like plants with a picking gap oriented transversely to the direction of travel" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,291, issued on May 13, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Header for harvesting stalk-like plants with a picking gap oriented transversely to the direction of travel" was invented by Hubert Weitenberg (Borken, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A header for harvesting stalk-like plants includes a number of gatherer assemblies arranged side by side for cutting off and conveying plants to a picking device arranged downstream of the gatherer assemblies. The picking device extends transversely to a direction of travel over the entire working width of at least one half of the header and includes a picking gap and stalk r...