ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,541, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy (Tampere, Finland).
"Mine operations analysis and control" was invented by Petri Mannonen (Tampere, Finland) and Pekka Martikainen (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including the steps of receiving mine operations data from a set of data sources in a mine, processing the mine operations data to detect a set of events meeting at least one operator attention triggering condition, mapping the set of events to a mine model on the basis of location information associated with the events in the set of events, determining an affected location ...