ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,006, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES (Beijing).

"Large-scale denudation depth thematic mapping method" was invented by Wen Chen (Beijing), Jingbo Sun (Beijing), Bin Zhang (Beijing), Shuangfeng Zhao (Beijing), Pengfei Tian (Beijing), Ruxin Ding (Beijing), Ze Shen (Beijing), Wen Zhang (Beijing), Zhi Li (Beijing) and Qiuyi Du (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A large-scale denudation depth thematic mapping method, which includes: creating a rule for arranging field work point and field work route, a sampling rule, a field observation and recording rule and a mineral ...