ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,061, issued on June 17, was assigned to Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG (Spelle, Germany).
"Cutting device" was invented by Tobias Focks (Spelle, Germany), Markus Ester (Beesten, Germany), Martin Bolsmann (Andervenne, Germany) and Frank Ahlmer (Westerkappeln, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting device is embodied for cutting agricultural crop plants by a rotational movement about a cutting rotation axis and has at least one knife element that, in a plan view of a top side of the cutting device, is embodied open in circulating direction. At least one radial conveying element, arranged at least at the top side ...