US Patent Issued to Ponsse on Feb. 25 for "Arrangement and method for managing unloading of a load of a forestry machine" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,455, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Ponsse Oyj (Vierema, Finland).

"Arrangement and method for managing unloading of a load of a forestry machine" was invented by Marko Halonen (Lapinlahti, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Off-road work machines (e.g., forestry machines) and unloading such machines are described. A forestry machine includes a load space for a timber load, a boom structure, and a wood-handling tool attached to the boom structure. The method includes defining and noting down the location of the timber pile, calculating and noting down the location of the edge of the timber pile, picking a timber bundle from t...