US Patent Issued to DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) on May 27 for "Deployment of a detonator assembly" (South African Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,390, issued on May 27, was assigned to DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD (Johannesburg).

"Deployment of a detonator assembly" was invented by Michiel Jacobus Kruger (Johannesburg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detonator assembly which includes a holder, a flexible elongate element which is engaged with the holder, a detonator connected to the element, an energy storage device on the holder and a coil arrangement for charging the energy storage device when the coil arrangement is coupled to a variable electromagnetic field."

The patent was filed on Sept. 8, 2022, under Application No. 18/694,180.

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