US Patent Issued to ANDRITZ on Nov. 3 for "Method for monitoring the quality properties of a cellulose bale in a bale line" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,806, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ANDRITZ AG (Graz, Austria).

"Method for monitoring the quality properties of a cellulose bale in a bale line" was invented by Michael Bergmann (St. Margareten im Rosental, Austria), Gernot Gratzer (Stattegg, Austria) and Armin Konjevod (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring the quality characteristics of a pulp bale in a baling line of a pulp machine, wherein cut pulp sheets are stacked to form a pulp bale. Pictures of the pulp bale are taken with a camera system and are evaluated with a computer-implemented computational model for image analysis. Improved availabil...