US Patent Issued to PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A.-PETROBRAS on Aug. 11 for "Device with jig for cutting clay mineral slides oriented for analyses of the x-ray diffractometry technique" (Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,440, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A.-PETROBRAS (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

"Device with jig for cutting clay mineral slides oriented for analyses of the x-ray diffractometry technique" was invented by Camila Wense Ramnani (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Renata Alves Mota (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Fabiano Galdino Leal (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Yaro Moises Parizek Silva (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a jig for cutting clay mineral slides oriented for analyses of the X-ray diffractometry technique. The device speeds up the preparation of the clay mineral slide and guarante...