US Patent Issued to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 9 for "Autonomous mining system based on real-time digital video communication that uses ethernet and optical technologies" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,309, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"Autonomous mining system based on real-time digital video communication that uses ethernet and optical technologies" was invented by Meiwei Kong (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Boon S. Ooi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Tien Khee Ng (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous mining system includes a real-time digital video transmission sub-system configured to obtain video streams from underground, and transfer the video streams to a control center located above ground; and an exploration and maintenance su...