Patent ID: 7200458

Claim:
A method for tracking multiple pieces of wood in a wood processing system, comprising: obtaining first inherent wood characteristic information from first and second pieces of wood as they move in a first order of a first queue through a first station; associating the first inherent wood characteristic information from the first and second pieces of wood with first respective sequential queue positions in the first queue in which the first inherent wood characteristic information is obtained; obtaining second inherent wood characteristic information from the first and second pieces of wood in a second order of a second queue at a second station, the second order being the same as or different from in the first order; associating the second inherent wood characteristic information from the first and second pieces of wood with second respective sequential queue positions in the second queue in which the second inherent wood characteristic information is obtained; and comparing the second inherent wood characteristic information of a given first or second piece of wood associated with a primary queue position within the second queue to the first inherent wood characteristic information of a given first or second piece of wood associated with a corresponding primary queue position within the first queue to make an evaluation of similarity between the first and second inherent wood characteristic information associated with the corresponding primary queue positions.