ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,995, issued on May 5, was assigned to Chengdu University of Technology (Chengdu City, China).

"Finite element-based ore deposit drilling information processing and analysis method and device" was invented by Linglin Zhong (Chengdu City, China), Kanghui Zhong (Chengdu City, China), Qin Qin (Chengdu City, China), Hongjie Zhang (Chengdu City, China), Zhao Yan (Chengdu City, China), Haozhen Huang (Chengdu City, China) and Yupeng Chang (Chengdu City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A finite element-based ore deposit drilling information processing and analysis method and device are described herein. The information processing method in...