ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,791, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to JOY GLOBAL UNDERGROUND MINING LLC (Warrendale, Pa.).
"Offboard monitoring system" was invented by Toby J. Cressman (Titusville, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for offboard monitoring are provided. The system may include a remote monitoring vehicle including one or more sensors, a drive mechanism for driving the remote monitoring vehicle; and a controller coupled to the one or more sensors and the drive mechanism. The controller may be configured to navigate the monitoring vehicle along a predetermined path of the industrial site; receive sensor data relating to an equipm...