ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,569, issued on May 20, was assigned to China University of Geosciences (Beijing) (Beijing) and Tibet Julong Copper Co. Ltd. (Lhasa, China).

"GPU-based integrated processing method and system for geochemical data" was invented by Youye Zheng (Beijing), Zhaolong Xue (Beijing), Jiancuo Luosang (Lhasa, China), Jiangang Wei (Lhasa, China), Jingjing Li (Lhasa, China), Peng Kang (Lhasa, China) and Zhuoga Suolang (Lhasa, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A GPU-based integrated processing method for geochemical data, includes the following steps: S1, storing geochemical data in a format of a preset three-dimensional array data structure St...