US Patent Issued to MICROTEC on Oct. 21 for "Computer-implemented method and a system for estimating a pith location with regard to a timber board" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,711, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MICROTEC AB (Linkoping, Sweden).

"Computer-implemented method and a system for estimating a pith location with regard to a timber board" was invented by Tadios Habite (Vaxjo, Sweden), Osama Abdeljaber (Vaxjo, Sweden) and Anders Olsson (Vaxjo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for estimating a pith location with regard to a timber board, including: receiving a pixelated actual digital image of each lateral face of at least a longitudinal part of the timber board, extending along a longitudinal axis of the timber board; identifying an input portion in said longit...