ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,099, issued on July 15, was assigned to X-Centric Sciences Inc. (San Diego).
"System and method for soil characterization" was invented by Roozbeh Ravansari (Armidale, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for characterizing matter, for example, soil organic content is disclosed. A radiation and electric field sensor measure sample properties before, during and after irradiation. Calibrations are developed relating those measurements to useful properties of matter, for example, soil density and organic content. As an example of an embodiment of the disclosed invention an instrument attachment for portable X-ray...