US 12,260,371 B2
System and method for determining a dump location for a vehicle
Dana Geislinger, Chandler, AZ (US); Travis Gaddie, Phoenix, AZ (US); Margaret Alden Tinsley, Titusville, FL (US); Muneeb Alam, Alexandria, VA (US); Steven Chad Richardson, Thatcher, AZ (US); Akaash Sanyal, Boston, MA (US); Raquel Crossman, Mesa, AZ (US); Tianfang Ni, Boston, MA (US); Cory A. Demieville, Scottsdale, AZ (US); Luke Gerdes, Framingham, MA (US); Robyn Freeman, Menlo Park, CA (US); Oleksandr Klesov, Lexington, MA (US); and Luciano Kiniti Issoe, Sao Paulo (BR)
Assigned to FREEPORT MINERALS CORPORATION, Phoenix, AZ (US)
Filed by FREEPORT MINERALS CORPORATION, Phoenix, AZ (US)
Filed on Jun. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/850,895.
Prior Publication US 2023/0419249 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01); G06Q 10/0639 (2023.01); G06Q 10/087 (2023.01); G06Q 50/02 (2012.01)
CPC G06Q 10/087 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/06315 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0639 (2013.01); G06Q 50/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by one or more processors, location coordinates of vehicles making dumps on a lift of a stockpile;
aggregating and averaging, by the one or more processors, the location coordinates of the vehicles to determine a location of the vehicles; and
determining, by the one or more processors, a dump location by comparing the location of the vehicles with geographic information system (GIS) polygons and dispatch data,
wherein the GIS polygons include a GIS object that stores a geographic representation as a property of the GIS object, and
wherein the geographic representation includes a series of x and y coordinate pairs that enclose an area of the stockpile;
adjusting, by the one or more processors, the dump location by removing errors due to a periodic overlap in the GIS polygons;
adjusting, by the one or more processors, the dump location by removing errors due to the dispatch data recording a beacon dump location that is different than the dump location;
adjusting, by the one or more processors, the dump location by removing entry errors about the dump location;
adjusting, by the one or more processors, a location of leaching operations based on the dump location; and
adjusting, by the one or more processors, the leaching operations by activating a mining machine to pump raffinate into the adjusted location of the leaching operations, to optimize mining production at the dump location.