ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,228, issued on Dec. 2.
"System and method for evaluating the ethical sourcing of stones" was invented by Julie Abouzelof (Waianae, Hawaii).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stone sourcing platform for operating an evaluation of the ethical probability of sourcing a stone in a country of interest. The platform includes one or more databases that store various categorized information about the stone and the country of mining or polishing of the stone. Some of the information stored includes but is not limited to the physical properties of the stone and the environmental impact, societal, and worker impact the sourcing of a particular ston...