ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,572, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES (BEIJING) (Beijing) and Tibet Julong Copper Co. Ltd. (Lhasa, China).
"Method for rapid prediction of potential of porphyry copper mineralization based on spectral characteristics of tourmaline" was invented by Youye Zheng (Beijing), Hongjun Cheng (Beijing), Jiancuo Luosang (Lhasa, China), Jiangang Wei (Lhasa, China), Xiaofang Dou (Beijing), Qiong Ci (Lhasa, China), Xiaofeng Liu (Lhasa, China), Zhuoga Suolang (Lhasa, China) and Song Wu (Lhasa, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for rapid prediction of porphyry copper mineralization potential based on ...