US Patent Issued to LUMO ANALYTICS on July 14 for "Estimation of comminution energy consumption for rock comminution" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,981, issued on July 14, was assigned to LUMO ANALYTICS LTD (Helsinki).

"Estimation of comminution energy consumption for rock comminution" was invented by Lasse Kangas (Aalto, Finland) and Jussi Leveinen (Aalto, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an apparatus and method for facilitating an estimation of comminution energy consumption for rock comminution. The apparatus comprises a pulsed laser source for ablating rock material to generate laser-induced plasma shock waves, a focusing lens system for focusing the pulsed lased source for ablating the rock material and a microphone for capturing the laser-induced plasma ...