US Patent Issued to DAVEY BICKFORD on Aug. 19 for "Method for installing a set of electronic detonators and associated ignition method" (French, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,593, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to DAVEY BICKFORD (Hery, France).

"Method for installing a set of electronic detonators and associated ignition method" was invented by Franck Guyon (Auxerre, France), Raphael Trousselle (Paris), Stephanus Johannes Marais Combrinck (Clontarf, Australia) and Lou Dumanoir (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for installing a set of electronic detonators in blast holes of a mining face includes the following steps: connecting detonators, charged into the blast holes, to a movable test device; receiving, by the movable test device, a message sent by each detonator; determining, from that mes...