ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,130, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG (Waiblingen, Germany).
"Method for determining a sharpness condition of a saw chain of a chain saw" was invented by Marco Weber (Backnang, Germany), Thomas Lux (Alfdorf, Germany), Luis Jaeger (Stuttgart, Germany) and Siddharth Baburaj (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for determining a sharpness condition of a saw chain of a chain saw. The saw chain includes at least one cutting link having an upper cutting blade. An upper cutting blade image of the upper cutting blade of the cutting link is recorded using an imaging device. An e...