ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,177, issued on July 15.
"System and method for tracking logs in a wood processing chain" was invented by Jan-Erik Rendahl (Virserum, Sweden) and Jonny Edvardsson (Virserum, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (100A) to track logs in a wood processing chain, includes a database arrangement (102) that includes pre-recorded image of a given log, wherein the given log is associated with log identification information. The system further includes a plurality of imaging devices implemented at a sorting station. The plurality of imaging devices (104) is configured to capture a first set of images from at least a first prespecifie...