Patents by Inventor Jacques Wessel Moolman

Jacques Wessel Moolman has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Logging of detonator usage
    Patent number: 7103510
    Abstract: A method of logging use of a non-electric detonator, which comprises recording identity data associated with the detonator at the time the detonator is being loaded in a blasthole, recording consumption of the detonator, and relating the identity data associated with the detonator to an inventory of non-electric detonators thereby allowing the inventory to be updated, wherein the identity data associated with the non-electric detonator are recorded using an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Orica Explosives Technology Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Jacques Wessel Moolman, William Blake