ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,376, issued on May 19, was assigned to 9389-8948 QUEBEC INC. (Dolbeau-Mistassini, Canada).

"Tilt hoist system with transition assembly and corresponding methods" was invented by Gino Martel (Albanel, Canada), Sylvain Minier (Normandin, Canada), Patrick Sasseville (Dolbeau-Mistassini, Canada) and Martin Perreault (Dolbeau-Mistassini, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tilt hoist system for breaking down a lumber stack having tiers of lumber. The tilt hoist system includes a tilt hoist apparatus to successively bring a topmost tier thereof at a release location, an outfeed, a transition assembly for guiding each tier of lumber to t...