ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,686, issued on April 7, was assigned to MiTek Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Automated lumber cutting and delivery system" was invented by Kathy Jin (Chesterfield, Mo.), Du Kim (Chesterfield, Mo.), Vicky Carroll (Chesterfield, Mo.), Karl Vielhaber (Chesterfield, Mo.), Kyle Brown (Chesterfield, Mo.), Jeffrey Fritz Jr. (Chesterfield, Mo.), Travis Shelton (Chesterfield, Mo.), Efegbare Efenedo (Chesterfield, Mo.) and Manish Kanjee (Chesterfield, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lumber cutting and delivery system for use in assembling trusses on a truss table includes a saw for cutting a piece of material into pieces of a truss. A...