US Patent Issued to SANDVIK MINING AND CONSTRUCTION, NEWTRAX TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 18 for "Mine collision detection and avoidance" (Finnish, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,138, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SANDVIK MINING AND CONSTRUCTION OY (Tampere, Finland) and NEWTRAX TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Montreal).

"Mine collision detection and avoidance" was invented by Patrick Murphy (Tampere, Finland), Alexandre Cervinka (Montreal), Petri Mannonen (Tampere, Finland) and Pekka Martikainen (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method including the steps of receiving mine operations data from a set of data sources in a mine, the mine operations data, processing the mine operations data to detect a set of events meeting at least one operator attention triggering condition, mapping ...