ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,691, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to AIRFORESTRY AB (Uppsala, Sweden).

"Method and system for remote or autonomous cutting a ligno trunk" was invented by Markus Romar (Uppsala, Sweden), Olle Gelin (Alunda, Sweden) and Mauritz Andersson (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a system for remote and/or autonomous cutting at least a portion of a harvested ligno trunk, at least a portion of a ligno trunk to be harvested, at least a portion of a ligno trunk during harvesting or at least a portion of a ligno trunk during transporting, said system comprising: a remotely and/or autonomously controll...