US Patent Issued to Microbeam Technologies on April 14 for "System and method for predicting the presence of rare earth elements" (North Dakota, Minnesota, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,697, issued on April 14, was assigned to Microbeam Technologies Inc. (Grand Forks, N.D.).

"System and method for predicting the presence of rare earth elements" was invented by Matthew Fuka (Grand Forks, N.D.), Eric Kolb (Grand Forks, N.D.), Alexander Benson (Denver) and Steven Benson (Victoria, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for predicting rare earth elements (REEs) in a feedstock sample includes a measurement instrument that records a measurement for a sample, a processor communicatively coupled to the measuring instrument, and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor and containing machine readable instruc...