US Patent Issued to The First Institute of Oceanography, MNR on Nov. 4 for "Method for delineating ore body of deep-sea polymetallic nodules based on coverage data" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,086, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The First Institute of Oceanography, MNR (Qingdao, China).

"Method for delineating ore body of deep-sea polymetallic nodules based on coverage data" was invented by Xiangwen Ren (Qingdao, China), Shijuan Yan (Qingdao, China), Yuxue Zhang (Qingdao, China), Yue Hao (Qingdao, China), Yiping Luo (Qingdao, China) and Dalong Liu (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for delineating an ore body of deep-sea polymetallic nodules based on coverage data includes steps as follows. Ore body data of the deep-sea polymetallic nodules is obtained, the ore body data includes: mining site product...