US Patent Issued to EPIROC ROCK DRILLS on Aug. 4 for "System and method for creating, ranking, integrating and implementing plans in a mining and production process" (South African, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,939, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to EPIROC ROCK DRILLS AB (Orebro, Sweden).

"System and method for creating, ranking, integrating and implementing plans in a mining and production process" was invented by John Francis Megannon (Pretoria, South Africa), Andries George Hendrik Loubser (Boskruin, South Africa), Michael Woodhall (Johannesburg) and Sinisa Vu Kovic (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an automated, computer-assisted system for a mining and production process of natural resource and reserve with mining technical equipment. The system comprising a first, second and third sub-system. The first su...