US Patent Issued to Dyno Nobel on June 16 for "Fracture density model system, methods, and apparatuses" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,354, issued on June 16, was assigned to Dyno Nobel Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Fracture density model system, methods, and apparatuses" was invented by A B M Abdul Ali Bhuiyan (Salt Lake City), Charles Michael Lownds (Salt Lake City) and Dale S. Preece (Saratoga Springs, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fracture density model (FDM) system may predict the fragmentation size distribution for a blast. The FDM system may generate a model comprising a plurality of volume elements. The FDM system may determine pre-existing joint fractures in the volume elements. The FDM system may also simulate blasts and track fractures, for each of the ...