US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Oct. 7 for "Harvesting machine cutter head with automated posture-based reel finger pitch adjustment" (American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,197, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Harvesting machine cutter head with automated posture-based reel finger pitch adjustment" was invented by Daniel S. Hoffman (Bettendorf, Iowa), Cristiano Engelmann (Horizontina, Brazil), Anthony J. Knepper (Asbury, Iowa), Justin C. Freehill (Fenton, Ill.), Duane M. Bomleny (Geneseo, Ill.) and Corwin M. Puryk (Bettendorf, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A harvesting machine includes a cutter head having a cutter bar for cutting crop from a ground surface and a rotatable reel located above the cutter bar. Reel arms of the reel each include a plurality of fingers...