ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,169, issued on April 29, was assigned to FREEPORT MINERALS Corp. (Phoenix).

"System and method for adjusting leaching operations based on leach analytic data" was invented by Dana Geislinger (Chandler, Ariz.), Travis Gaddie (Phoenix), Margaret Alden Tinsley (Titusville, Fla.), Muneeb Alam (Alexandria, Va.), Steven Chad Richardson (Thatcher, Ariz.), Akaash Sanyal (Boston), Raquel Crossman (Mesa, Ariz.), Tianfang Ni (Boston), Cory A. Demieville (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Luke Gerdes (Framingham, Mass.), Robyn Freeman (Menlo Park, Calif.), Oleksandr Klesov (Lexington, Mass.) and Luciano Kiniti Issoe (Sao Paulo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Th...