ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,271, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to IFP Energies nouvelles (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

"Method of detecting at least one geological constituent of a rock sample" was invented by Sylvain Desroziers (Rueil-Malmaison, France), Mathieu Feraille (Rueil-Malmaison, France), Vincent Clochard (Rueil-Malmaison, France), Antoine Bouziat (Rueil-Malmaison, France), Youri Hamon (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Maxime Moreaud (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of detecting a geological constituent (cge) of a rock sample, by use of a machine learning method (ALG) trained with a limited n...