US Patent Issued to Sandvik Mining and Construction on Nov. 25 for "Mining automation system operation zone control" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,294, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy (Tampere, Finland).

"Mining automation system operation zone control" was invented by Lauso Cumini (Tampere, Finland) and Juho Vaara (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided including the steps of determining a set of passage control units, PCUs, enabling forming of an isolated operation zone of a mining automation system; maintaining an acknowledgement status record for the set of PCUs; determining, based on the acknowledgement status record, a PCU within the set of PCUs for completing isolation of the operation zone; selecting an...