US Patent Issued on Feb. 10 for "Method and device for determining the fracture safety of a tree and associated computer program product" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,795, issued on Feb. 10.

"Method and device for determining the fracture safety of a tree and associated computer program product" was invented by Frank Rinn (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for determining the fracture safety of a tree. The method includes: determining a trunk cross-section of the tree to be assessed; detecting at least a largest and a smallest diameter in the trunk cross-section as well as a shape with possibly existing damages of the trunk cross-section; calculating a percentage relative direction-dependent load-bearing capacity in a plurality of definable directions via mome...