US Patent Issued to Australian National University on Nov. 4 for "Method and system for determining the location of artefacts and/or inclusions in a gemstone, mineral, or sample thereof" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,039, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Australian National University.

"Method and system for determining the location of artefacts and/or inclusions in a gemstone, mineral, or sample thereof" was invented by Roland Fleddermann (Bruce, Australia), Jong Hann Chow (Bonner, Australia), Adrian Paul Sheppard (Fisher, Australia), Timothy John Senden (Acton, Australia), Shane Jamie Latham (Griffith, Australia) and Keshu Huang (Turner, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for determining a location of artefacts and/or inclusions in a gemstone, mineral or sample thereof, the method comprising: surface mapping a gemstone...