US Patent Issued to Sandvik Mining and Construction on Nov. 25 for "Underground vehicle monitoring system field" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,282, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy (Tampere, Finland).

"Underground vehicle monitoring system field" was invented by Jussi Puura (Tampere, Finland), Samuel Hyyppa (Tampere, Finland) and Lauri Siivonen (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example aspect, there is provided a method, comprising the steps of obtaining route plan information indicative of a set of route points for a tunnel system of an underground worksite for at least partially autonomous driving of a vehicle, performing for at least some of route points in the set: detecting space information indicative...