US Patent Issued to Event Capture Systems on March 25 for "Online method to determine quality standards for incoming wood chips to a papermill" (American, Canadian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,336, issued on March 25, was assigned to Event Capture Systems Inc. (Mint Hill, N.C.).

"Online method to determine quality standards for incoming wood chips to a papermill" was invented by Brian James Mock (Mint Hill, N.C.), John Graves Larkin (Gastonia, N.C.), Akhil Kumar (Bangalore, India), David Hirvonen (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Chris Giroux (British Columbia, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method is disclosed herein for monitoring and determining a quality level of incoming raw material from one or more sources. The method includes (1) receiving visual data associated with the incoming raw material; (2)...