ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,116, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to WSGRI Engineering & Surveying InCorp. Ltd. (Wuhan, China).

"Mineral exploration system and method" was invented by Yangdong Peng (Wuhan, China), Haifeng Li (Wuhan, China), Zhilian Zhang (Wuhan, China), Hao Wu (Wuhan, China), Ke Yang (Wuhan, China) and Sen Chen (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a mineral exploration system and method within the field of mineral exploration technology. The system comprises a microwave emission module, a Rydberg Atom Antenna, and a signal extraction module, with both the microwave emission module and the signal extraction module being conne...