US Patent Issued to Sandvik Mining and Construction on April 14 for "Control system, rock drilling rig, and method for controlling coupling measures" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,230, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy (Tampere, Finland).

"Control system, rock drilling rig, and method for controlling coupling measures" was invented by Perttu Koivumaki (Tampere, Finland), Jarkko Uotila (Tampere, Finland), Eero Viskari (Tampere, Finland) and Visa Toppinen (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system, rock drilling rig and method for controlling coupling measures is provided. The control system is arranged for controlling coupling and uncoupling measures of a threaded coupling of a rock drilling tool. The control system is configured to detect initial min...