US Patent Issued to Log Max on May 27 for "Harvesting head for length determination of a tree trunk and an associated method" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,297, issued on May 27, was assigned to Log Max AB (Grangarde, Sweden).

"Harvesting head for length determination of a tree trunk and an associated method" was invented by Mikael Eliasson (Borlange, Sweden) and Henrik Persson (Gavle, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tree harvesting head for a tree harvesting machine, wherein the tree harvesting head comprises at least one cutting device, at least two feed wheels and a radar device. The radar device comprises at least one radar transmitter antenna arranged to transmit a signal to a tree trunk to be measured, at least two radar receiver antennas arranged to receive a radar signal...