US Patent Issued to Universal Field Robots on Nov. 3 for "Apparatus and method for positioning equipment relative to a drill hole" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,954, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Universal Field Robots Pty Ltd (Qld, Australia).

"Apparatus and method for positioning equipment relative to a drill hole" was invented by Jeffrey James Sterling (Eagle Farm, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated vehicle with a control unit and a scanning portion including one or more scanning devices configured to scan an area of terrain in the vicinity of the estimated location of the drill hole in order to determine an actual location and condition of the drill hole, and to generate a point cloud representing at least a portion of the interior of the drill hole. The vehicle als...