ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,196, issued on July 8, was assigned to FREEPORT MINERALS Corp. (Phoenix).
"System and method for determining changes to a heat profile of a stockpile" was invented by Steven Chad Richardson (Thatcher, Ariz.), Robyn Freeman (Menlo Park, Calif.), Luke Gerdes (Framingham, Mass.), Margaret Alden Tinsley (Titusville, Fla.), Dana Geislinger (Chandler, Ariz.), Akaash Sanyal (Boston), Travis Gaddie (Phoenix), Muneeb Alam (Alexandria, Va.), Raquel Crossman (Mesa, Ariz.), Tianfang Ni (Boston), Cory A. Demieville (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Oleksandr Klesov (Lexington, Mass.) and Luciano Kiniti Issoe (Cerquilho, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Th...