ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,616, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ICON Technology Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Automated particle separation extracted from soil including regolith associated with any geologic environment" was invented by Evan Jensen (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments relate generally to soil and particulate science and data analysis thereof, computer software and systems, and control systems and algorithms based on characteristics of subsets of particulate graph-based data arrangements, among other things, and, more specifically, to a computing and a mechanical platform configured to identify and classify particles in...