ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,396, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Jiangsu University (Jiangsu, China).

"Upstanding clamping longitudinal conveyor system for whole-stem reed harvesting, method, and harvester" was invented by Yaoming Li (Jiangsu, China), Binbin Ji (Jiangsu, China), Kuizhou Ji (Jiangsu, China), Yanbin Liu (Jiangsu, China), Zhenwei Liang (Jiangsu, China) and Tuo Du (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An upstanding clamping longitudinal conveyor system for whole-stem reed harvesting includes a conveyor device, a height adjustment mechanism, and a control unit. A preharvest detection unit is configured to detect height information of ree...