ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,881, issued on June 23, was assigned to MINNICH MANUFACTURING COMPANY INC. (Mansfield, Ohio).
"Compact portable rock drill system" was invented by Dustin Hendrickson (Mansfield, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a utility chassis for use with rock drills for automatic and safe drilling of target surfaces. The system includes a remote control unit that is pneumatically coupled to the system and may be selectively detached from the utility chassis so that the operator may control the system via the remote control unit from afar. The utility chassis has a lightweight vertical frame member with an off-set wheel base t...