US Patent Issued to X Development on April 8 for "Geochemical analysis of drainage basins" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,649, issued on April 8, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Geochemical analysis of drainage basins" was invented by Artem Goncharuk (Mountain View, Calif.), Kevin Forsythe Smith (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Alex S. Miller (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining a mineralogy of a portion of a drainage basin include identifying topography data associated with a drainage basin comprising at least one body of water; identifying weather data associated with the drainage basin; identifying first sensor data associated with a first water sensor installed in the drainage basin; identif...