US Patent Issued to Mercer Mass Timber on May 19 for "Adaptive lumber management" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,723, issued on May 19, was assigned to Mercer Mass Timber LLC (Spokane Valley, Wash.).

"Adaptive lumber management" was invented by Brent David Olson (Liberty Lake, Wash.), Carl Daniel Morrow (Spokane Valley, Wash.), Mengzhe Gu (Spokane Valley, Wash.), Sam Hermann (Chattaroy, Wash.), William August Hoiles (Oakville, Calif.) and Gary Fong (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lumber sorting systems and methods that use adaptive lumber management to tailor the distribution of lumber to improve the yield and aesthetic properties of a product are disclosed. An adaptive lumber management system in accordance with the present di...