US Patent Issued to Joy Global Underground Mining on June 2 for "Bolter" (Australian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,385, issued on June 2, was assigned to Joy Global Underground Mining LLC (Warrendale, Pa.).

"Bolter" was invented by Patrick Ross Willaman (Stump Creek, Pa.), Michael Georgiou (Moss Vale, Australia), Greg Broad (Mt Pleasant, Australia) and Kevin Saeler (Stoneboro, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drilling and bolting rig for performing drilling and bolting operations. The drilling and bolting rig includes a magazine for storing a consumable, a feed supporting a drill head for movement relative to a work surface, and a loader configured to retrieve the consumable from the magazine and load the consumable into the drill head. The lo...