US Patent Issued to CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES (BEIJING) on Jan. 20 for "Method for discriminating deposit types based on tourmaline components" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,688, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES (BEIJING) (Beijing).

"Method for discriminating deposit types based on tourmaline components" was invented by Youye Zheng (Beijing), Peng Liu (Beijing), Qiong Ci (Lhasa, China), Xiaofang Dou (Beijing), Song Wu (Beijing), Xiaofeng Liu (Lhasa, China) and Fuzhi Gong (Lhasa, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for discriminating deposit types by using tourmaline elemental components, contents of Sn, Li, Ga, and V trace elements are determined by collecting hydrothermal tourmaline samples in a deposit, and deposit type discrimination is performed with F1,...