US Patent Issued to Sandvik Mining and Construction on May 5 for "Apparatus, rock drilling rig and drilling method" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,290, issued on May 5, was assigned to Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy (Tampere, Finland).

"Apparatus, rock drilling rig and drilling method" was invented by Mikko Mononen (Tampere, Finland), Jarkko Jantti (Tampere, Finland), Mikko Viinikainen (Tampere, Finland), Hannu Iloranta (Tampere, Finland) and Miro Saarela (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, rock drilling rig and drilling method is provided. The apparatus provides position control data for controlling positioning a rock drilling unit of a rock drilling rig arranged for drilling transverse drill hole patterns in an underground tunnel. The apparatus in...