ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,463, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Huzhou), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Huzhou City, China).

"Background reduction method for soil XRF spectrum based on XRF-EGAN model" was invented by Yanchun Zhao (Huzhou City, China), Xinghua He (Huzhou City, China), Huanlong Zhang (Huzhou City, China), Fusheng Li (Huzhou City, China) and Xinran Wang (Huzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to the field of XRF spectra analysis, and discloses a background reduction method for soil XRF spectra based on the XRF-EGAN, which is based on the des...