ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,017, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Sandvik SRP AB (Svedala, Sweden).

"Determining a state of equipment" was invented by Mikael Lindberg (Svedala, Sweden), Petra Sundstrom (Svedala, Sweden), Marie Rubin (Svedala, Sweden), Anders Hoven (Svedala, Sweden) and Mats Dahlberg (Svedala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method and computer program product for receiving a first type of information relating to operation of rock processing equipment from a first source of information, receiving a second type of information relating to the operation of the rock processing equipment from a second source of information, de...