ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,551, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Boise Cascade Co. (Boise, Idaho).
"Method and system for veneer sheet portion stacking and unstacking" was invented by Neill O'Quinn (Alexandria, La.), David Bolton (Lena, La.), Jude Richard Peek (Pineville, La.) and Curtis Fennell (Boyce, La.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for stacking and unstacking of veneer includes using one or more veneer analysis systems to collect dimensions and quality data associated with the veneer being used to create a stack of veneer. In addition, location data for the veneer in the stack of veneer is recorded. The dimensions data, the quality da...