ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,637, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Gebruder Linck Maschinenfabrik 'Gatterlinck' GmbH & Co. KG (Oberkirch, Germany).
"Method and device for producing sawn timber" was invented by Andreas Martin (Neuried, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to increase the obtainable sawn timber volume in the side board region during the production of sawn timber from a tree trunk, in a method in which the tree trunk is canted at at least two sides, preferably four sides, a remaining wane region is milled out at at least two mutually opposite corner regions by milling tools, and a side product board is cut off by a saw cut along a plane ...