US Patent Issued to Woodland Mills on May 27 for "Portable sawmill with folding bed" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,569, issued on May 27, was assigned to Woodland Mills Inc. (Port Perry, Canada).

"Portable sawmill with folding bed" was invented by Neil Kevin Bramley (Ontario, Canada), Joshua John Malcolm (Ontario, Canada), Jeffrey Francis Doherty (Ontario, Canada) and Andreas Ismael Rifani (Ontario, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sawmill assembly includes a bed and a carriage. The bed has a pair of substantially parallel rails, and the carriage is movably supported along the rails. The bed includes an extension bed member pivotably attached to a main bed member with a combination bunk/hinge to allow an operator to fold the bed between an...