ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,863, issued on March 24, was assigned to ENERSOFT INC. (Calgary, Canada).
"Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy for geological analysis" was invented by Grant I. Sanden (Calgary, Canada), Yannai Z.R. Segal (Calgary, Canada) and Mikhail Kostousov (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) devices for analysis of geological and related samples, and related methods. In the method, a scanning table having a geological core is moved from a start position to an end position for each position in a plurality of positions of the scanning table corresponding to an e region of interest of the ge...