US Patent Issued to The Mosaic on April 7 for "Rotary boring mining machine inertial steering system" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,733, issued on April 7, was assigned to The Mosaic Co. (Tampa, Fla.).

"Rotary boring mining machine inertial steering system" was invented by Roy W. Tivas (Regina, Canada) and Erik Rasmussen (Yarbo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mining system with an inertial guidance system configured to enable precise excavation of geological material without a need to advance a survey line over a long distance and/or nonlinear excavation path, thereby maximizing productivity of the mind by minimizing a width of un-mined material necessary for support between adjacent excavation paths and minimizing equipment downtime."

The patent was fi...