US Patent Issued to University of Wyoming on June 30 for "Methods and devices for seamless pore network extraction" (Wyoming Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,657, issued on June 30, was assigned to University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyo.).

"Methods and devices for seamless pore network extraction" was invented by Bradley Mccaskill (Laramie, Wyo.), Amin Amooie (Laramie, Wyo.) and Mohammad Piri (Laramie, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for pore network extraction by one or more processing units are disclosed. The method may include decomposing the global image into a set of overlapping subimages, extracting a set of subnetworks corresponding to the set of overlapping subimages, obtaining a cohesive pore network representing the porous media sample by merging the set of ...