Patent ID: 8346631

Claim:
A method of operating a lumber tracking system including at least one computing device to track lumber in a sawmill, the method comprising: for each of a number of pieces of lumber: determining at least one geometric characteristic of a piece of lumber; logically associating by the at least one computing device the piece of lumber with at least one piece of wood from which the piece of lumber was sawn based at least in part on the determined at least one geometric characteristic of the piece of lumber; determining at least one geometric characteristic for each of a plurality of cants; and for each of the number of pieces of lumber: comparing the at least one geometric characteristic of the piece of lumber including at least one of thickness, width or wane dimensions with the geometric characteristics of the plurality of cants by the at least one computing device; and determining which log or cant the piece of lumber was sawn from based on the comparison by the at least one computing device.