US Patent Issued to TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES on June 16 for "Methods and systems for mining" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,962, issued on June 16, was assigned to TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES Pty Ltd. (Melbourne, Australia).

"Methods and systems for mining" was invented by Florian Andreas Oppolzer (Melbourne, Australia), Anne Kathryn Brown (Melbourne, Australia) and Peter Siew Hun Mah (Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for mining described herein include a surface mine site including a processing site situated remotely from a blast site within the mine site and coupled by a network of roads. A first proportion of the roads are sealed and a second proportion of the roads have a maximum width in the range of 3 to 12 metres....