ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,259, issued on June 2, was assigned to Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy (Tampere, Finland).
"Autonomous mine vehicle operation" was invented by Simo Sanerma (Tampere, Finland), Antti Lehtinen (Tampere, Finland), Teemu Parkkinen (Lempaala, Finland), Esa Pajala (Tampere, Finland) and Riku Pulli (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling autonomous mine vehicle operations includes the steps of detecting a dust condition for an autonomously operating mine vehicle performing optical environment scanning for positioning the mine vehicle at a worksite, transitioning the mine vehicle operating in an automatic ...