ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,517, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Geolog S.R.L. (San Giuliano Milanese, Italy).

"Geological sample interpretation through systematic analysis of colour, elemental data and electromagnetic observation" was invented by Antonio Calleri (San Giuliano Milanese, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the classification of geological materials into similar facies includes: determining the elemental metric for each geological sample from a geographical location; determining a colour metric for each geological sample from a geographical location; setting an initial classification framework based on the availability and qual...