US Patent Issued to CLAIR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT on Aug. 25 for "Classification and sawing of wood shingles using machine vision" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,525, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to CLAIR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LTD. (Clair, Canada).

"Classification and sawing of wood shingles using machine vision" was invented by Pierre Michaud (Clair, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of wood shingle classification and sawing using machine vision comprises the steps of taking an image of a wood slab in a wood block and identifying a defect in that slab; comparing an image of this defect to images of confirmed defects in a database of confirmed defects to find a match of the defect in these images. If a match is not found, sawing a shingle from the slab and classif...