US Patent Issued to Sandvik Mining and Construction on July 1 for "Method and arrangement for controlling electric current in tether cable of mining vehicle" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,127, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy (Tampere, Finland).

"Method and arrangement for controlling electric current in tether cable of mining vehicle" was invented by Samuli Verho (Tampere, Finland), Harri Vatanen (Tampere, Finland), Tommi Tiihonen (Tampere, Finland), Mikko Kouvo (Tampere, Finland), Raimo Juntunen (Tampere, Finland) and Mikko Kitula (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and arrangement are provided for controlling electric current in a tether cable of an electrically driven mining vehicle. An indicator of an equivalent cycle current that flows through said tether ...