ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,809, issued on May 26, was assigned to Columbia Insurance Co. (Omaha, Neb.).
"Lumber assembly and finishing system" was invented by Manish Kanjee (O'Fallon, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lumber assembly and finishing system for use in assembling constructs includes a lumber table configured to support arranged pieces of lumber. A press station presses nailing plates into the pieces of lumber to join the pieces of lumber together to form the lumber construct. A lumber construct transporter moves the arranged pieces of lumber from the lumber table to the press station while keeping the pieces of lumber in their arranged configura...