ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,234, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Plotlogic Pty Ltd (Queensland, Australia).
"Real time mine monitoring system and method" was invented by Andrew Job (Queensland, Australia) and Michael Edgar (Queensland, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for detecting changes in the ore grade of a rock face in near real time. The method includes the step of providing a scanning system having at least a hyperspectral imager, a position system, a LiDAR or range determination unit and computational resources. Further, the method involves determining a precise location of the scanning system utilisi...