US Patent Issued to MTI GROUP on May 12 for "Inflatable down hole bag" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,612, issued on May 12, was assigned to MTI GROUP PTY LTD (Australia).

"Inflatable down hole bag" was invented by James Matthew Richard Fitzsimons (Wangara, Australia), Nicholas Bodley (Wangara, Australia) and Jamie Smith (Wangara, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inflatable down hole bag for insertion into a blast hole, comprising: a sealed inflatable body; a first substance within the sealed inflatable body; a plurality of tablets separated from the first substance within the sealed inflatable body; and a release for allowing the first substance to contact the tablets; wherein the tablets comprise a second substance, and w...