US Patent Issued to COMERCIALIZADORA EXOBLAST CHILE on Dec. 2 for "Non-explosive programmable electronic initiation system for rock blasting" (Chilean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,063, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to COMERCIALIZADORA EXOBLAST CHILE S.P.A. (Santiago, Chile).

"Non-explosive programmable electronic initiation system for rock blasting" was invented by Eduardo Alfredo Abarca Vargas (Santiago, Chile).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable non-explosive initiator may include a capsule, a filament, a shrink sleeve, a capacitor, and a printed circuit board (PCB). The capsule includes a container tube or sleeve containing a first rapidly expanding metallic mixture. The filament is coated by a second rapidly expanding metallic mixture and is contained by the shrink sleeve. The filament is caused t...