US Patent Issued to Impossible Sensing on March 17 for "Method and system for mapping elemental composition in dynamic and heterogenous material" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,276, issued on March 17, was assigned to Impossible Sensing LLC (St. Louis).

"Method and system for mapping elemental composition in dynamic and heterogenous material" was invented by Pablo Sobron (St. Louis), Kirby H. Simon (St. Louis), Daniel C. Van Hoesen (St. Louis) and Owen M. Pochettino (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a system and method for elemental abundance monitoring used in ore exploration, mining and processing comprising an optical assembly of sensing elements combined with computer vision techniques for 3-dimensional mapping and optical focusing to identify and map elemental concentrations...