US Patent Issued to LUOSSAVAARA-KIIRUNAVAARA on Sept. 16 for "Detonator support device for charging a blasthole, blasting system, method of preparing a detonator support device, explosive material charging vehicle and data medium" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,480, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to LUOSSAVAARA-KIIRUNAVAARA AB (Lulea, Sweden).

"Detonator support device for charging a blasthole, blasting system, method of preparing a detonator support device, explosive material charging vehicle and data medium" was invented by Nikolaos Petropoulos (Lulea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention regards a detonator support device (1) configured for internally supporting an elongated detonator unit (3), the detonator support device (1) exhibits an upper end (5) and a lower end (7) and comprises a first elongated sidewall (9) hingedly coupled to a second elongated sidewal...