US Patent Issued to Sandvik Mining and Construction Tools, Sandvik Mining and Construction Australia on April 7 for "Smart rock bolt driver" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,735, issued on April 7, was assigned to Sandvik Mining and Construction Tools AB (Sandviken, Sweden) and Sandvik Mining and Construction Australia Pty Ltd (Milton, Australia).

"Smart rock bolt driver" was invented by Osvaldo Vallati (New South Wales, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver socket arranged for installation of a ground reinforcement bolt, wherein the driver socket includes a rotation sensor arranged for measuring rotation of the driver socket 1. The driver socket includes a processing unit configured to receive a signal from the rotation sensor and to derive, based on the signal from the rotation sensor, rota...