ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,530, issued on July 29, was assigned to Usines CLAAS France S.A.S (St. Remy/Woippy, France).

"Agricultural baler with tensioning device for a traction drive" was invented by Volker Fuchs (Saarburg, Germany), Emile Gaucher (Chevillon, France), Daniel Morsch (Perl, Germany) and Thierry Walter (Longeville-les-Metz, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural baler with at least one traction drive for driving working units of the agricultural baler is disclosed. At least one tensioning device is assigned to the traction drive with the at least one tensioning device comprising a tensioning member for adjusting a tensioning force...