ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,743, issued on July 29, was assigned to FREEPORT MINERALS Corp. (Phoenix).

"System and method for activating deep raffinate injection based on ore placement" 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...