US Patent Issued to Sandvik Mining and Construction on May 5 for "Sensor system of underground mining vehicles and underground mining vehicle comprising sensor system" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,327, issued on May 5, was assigned to Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy (Tampere, Finland).

"Sensor system of underground mining vehicles and underground mining vehicle comprising sensor system" was invented by Pekka Tamminen (Tampere, Finland), Jussi Tuominen (Tampere, Finland), Jani Saarinen (Tampere, Finland), Juha Hoffren (Tampere, Finland), Hannu Helen (Tampere, Finland), Mikko Huurre (Tampere, Finland) and Marko Vuokila (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor system of underground mining vehicles, which system is arranged to be fastened at a perimeter of an underground mining vehicle, comprising a sensor (1) an...