US Patent Issued to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY on Oct. 20 for "Digital panning for rare earth elements" (Mississippi, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,854, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY (Alexandria, Va.).

"Digital panning for rare earth elements" was invented by Anthony Joseph Bednar (Vicksburg, Miss.) and Elizabeth Jean Tomaszewski (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method of identifying at least one rare earth element (REE) in at least one sample comprises: analyzing the at least one sample by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), which comprises measuring, identifying, and recording an estimated concentration based on counts per second of a target analyte R...