ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,519, issued on April 14, was assigned to Dyno Nobel Inc. (Salt Lake City).
"Systems for automated blast design planning and methods related thereto" was invented by Scott Giltner (Louisville, Ky.), Rufus E. Flinchum (Roanoke, Va.), Jeffrey Averett (Grantsville, Utah) and Joseph Nawrocki Jr. (Buena Vista, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, or apparatus for generating a blast plan that can receive blast data comprising geological properties of a blast site, blasthole parameters, and available explosive product. A pattern footage can be determined based on a relationship between the face height, the specific energy of...