ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,689, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES PTY Ltd. (Melbourne, Australia).

"Method and system for controlling drill functionality" was invented by Chris Innes (Melbourne, Australia), Joshua Leeman (Melbourne, Australia) and Ross Hennessy (Budgewoi, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a method and system for controlling a drill rig by utilising a drill control module. A drill control module for controlling functionality of a drill rig comprises: a processor; a storage medium for storing a computer program having instructions that when executed on the processor perform the method steps of: ...