US Patent Issued to Deep Isolation on Dec. 23 for "Testing subterranean water for a hazardous waste material repository" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,930, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Deep Isolation Inc. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Testing subterranean water for a hazardous waste material repository" was invented by Richard A. Muller (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining the suitability of a subterranean formation as a hazardous waste repository include determining a neutron flux of a first isotope in a subterranean formation; calculating, based at least in part on the determined neutron flux of the first isotope, a predicted production rate of a second isotope in the subterranean formation; calculating a first ratio of the predicted production...