US Patent Issued to INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES on June 30 for "Method and apparatus for using transfer learning to locate igneous carbonate rock-type rare earth deposits" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,710, issued on June 30, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for using transfer learning to locate igneous carbonate rock-type rare earth deposits" was invented by Guoqiang Xue (Beijing), Pengfei Lv (Beijing), Weiying Chen (Beijing), Ya Xu (Beijing), Xin Wu (Beijing), Jian Wang (Beijing) and Xianhua Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application proposes a method and apparatus for transfer learning-based localization of igneous carbonate-hosted rare earth mineralization. The technology relates to electromagnetic exploration and includes o...