ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,391, issued on May 27, was assigned to Orica International Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Wireless initiation device" was invented by Byron Wicks (Singapore), Dirk Hummel (Singapore) and Thomas Boos (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless initiation device comprises a power source, a processing module, a first housing and an initiation unit. The processing module processes wireless electromagnetic communications signals received by an electromagnetic receiver system associated with the processing module. The wireless electromagnetic communications signals includes a wireless electromagnetic communications signal representative of...