ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,380, issued on April 7, was assigned to Joy Global Surface Mining Inc (Milwaukee).

"System and method for operating a mining machine with respect to a geofence using a dynamic operation zone" was invented by Keshad Darayas Malegam (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for operating a mining machine with respect to a geofence. One system includes an electronic processor configured to determine a first virtual operation zone positioned around the mobile industrial machine, where the first virtual operation zone is a dynamic area around the mobile industrial machine. The electronic processor is also configured to...