ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,638, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy (Tampere, Finland).

"Controlling a track-mounted drill rig" was invented by Toni Peltomaa (Tampere, Finland) and Mika Sahlman (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: determine a target position for a drill bit of the track-mounted drill rig; determine a turning trajectory of an aiming point of the drill bit; monitor po...