US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on Aug. 25 for "Spectroscopic analysis of rocks" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,835, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Spectroscopic analysis of rocks" was invented by Kenneth Thomas Ratcliffe (Welshpool, Great Britain), Luke Morgan (Welshpool, Great Britain), Paul Montgomery (Bricklehampton, Great Britain) and Timothy B. Fischer (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure concerns methods of identifying and quantifying constituent phases in rock samples based on spectroscopic measurements, methods of determining values of pyrolysis parameters for rock samples based on spectroscopic measurements, and methods of determining amounts of organic...