US Patent Issued to TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES on Sept. 9 for "Method and system for controlling a plurality of drill rigs" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,659, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES PTY Ltd. (Melbourne, Australia).

"Method and system for controlling a plurality of drill rigs" was invented by Chris Innes (Melbourne, Australia), Benjamin Jones (Melbourne, Australia), Steven Cook (Melbourne, Australia) and Joshua Leeman (Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a control method and system. The system includes: a deactivation control; a control centre controller for storing an association between the deactivation control and a selected set of mine sites; a plurality of autonomous drill rigs, each drill rig having a drill...