ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,183, issued on April 29, was assigned to AECI Mining Ltd. (Sandton, South Africa).
"Explosive booster" was invented by Hendrik Cornelius Bezuidenhout (Centurion, South Africa), Tondani Carol Tshikosi (Johannesburg) and Phillippus Rudolph Van Den Berg (Vanderbijlpark, South Africa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An explosive booster for initiating, and thus causing detonation of, a bulk explosive, includes a hollow body comprising a base member and a sidewall projecting from the base member. The body defines an interior space between the base member and the sidewall for containing a detonable booster formulation in use. A hollow elongat...