US Patent Issued to FREEPORT MINERALS on April 29 for "Irrigation impacts on a leach stockpile" (Arizona, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,170, issued on April 29, was assigned to FREEPORT MINERALS Corp. (Phoenix).

"Irrigation impacts on a leach stockpile" was invented by Dana Geislinger (Chandler, Ariz.), Travis Gaddie (Phoenix), Margaret Alden Tinsley (Titusville, Fla.), Steven Chad Richardson (Thatcher, Ariz.), Raquel Crossman (Mesa, Ariz.), Cristian Caro (Tucson, Ariz.), Kevin Cheng (Phoenix), Rosemary D. Blosser (Tucson, Ariz.) and Amelia Briggs (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system may include a secondary irrigation feature that determines a percent of overlap of each of a plurality of submodules in a second lift over each of a plurality of submodu...