ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,453, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to FREEPORT MINERALS Corp. (Phoenix).

"System and method for determining locations for recoverable mineral in a stockpile" was invented by Luciano Kiniti Issoe (Cerquilho, Brazil), Tianfang Ni (Boston), Oleksandr Klesov (Lexington, Mass.), Luke Gerdes (Framingham, Mass.), Raquel Crossman (Mesa, Ariz.), Muneeb Alam (Alexandria, Va.), Dana Geislinger (Chandler, Ariz.), Travis Gaddie (Phoenix), Margaret Alden Tinsley (Titusville, Fla.), Steven Chad Richardson (Thatcher, Ariz.), Akaash Sanyal (Boston), Cory A. Demieville (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Robyn Freeman (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark O...