US Patent Issued to Stiles Machinery on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for the production of glulam and split-lam wood composites" (American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,404, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Stiles Machinery Inc. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for the production of glulam and split-lam wood composites" was invented by Russell P. Suor (Alto, Mich.) and Thomas Hoeg Olesen (Silkeborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing a composite wood beam using a continuous wood processing subsystem that includes the steps of: analyzing a plurality of wood boards of material; transferring the analyzed wood boards to a cross-cutting saw; calculating and automatically recording in a database of a computer system the locations of joints between the sections of the p...