US Patent Issued to Minalyze on March 17 for "Method and system for measuring volume of a drill core sample" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,842, issued on March 17, was assigned to Minalyze AB (Savedalen, Sweden).

"Method and system for measuring volume of a drill core sample" was invented by Mikael Artursson (Northbridge, Australia) and Angus Philip Anstruther Tod (Como, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for determining the volume of a drill core sample, wherein the method comprises the steps of providing a reference surface of a core tray adapted to carry at least one drill core sample, placing a drill core sample in the core tray, scanning the core tray with an electromagnetic 3D scanner to obtain a sample surface, and computing the volume ...