US Patent Issued to COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION on Nov. 18 for "Navigation of an underground mining machine" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,595, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION (Australian Capital Territory, Australia).

"Navigation of an underground mining machine" was invented by Kevin Saric (Australian Capital Territory, Australia), Mark Dunn (Australian Capital Territory, Australia), Peter Reid (Australian Capital Territory, Australia), Jeremy Thompson (Australian Capital Territory, Australia) and John Malos (Australian Capital Territory, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to navigation of an underground mining machine. A laser range finder captures first and second 3D point ...