ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,830, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Hummingbird Solutions Inc. (North Vancouver, Canada).
"Mining productivity improvement methods and systems" was invented by Charles Constancon (North Vancouver, Canada), Keegan Michael Kelly (Aldergrove, Canada) and Ali Yaghini (North Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for improving the efficiency of a mining operation includes obtaining measurements of at least two of: a volume of mined material removed from terrain by an excavator; a volume of the mined material carried in a bucket of the excavator after removal of the material from the terrain; and a volume of the mine...