ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,853, issued on May 20, was assigned to Baker Hughes Holdings LLC (Houston).
"Integrated flare combustion control" was invented by Daniel Robert Johnson (Methuen, Mass.), Chong Tao (Winchester, Mass.), Joshua Daniel Brooks (Houston), Randy Scott Pfenninger (Groton, Mass.) and Lei Sui (Winchester, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for flare combustion control includes a sound speed measurement device for measuring sound speed in a flare vent gas, and a flare combustion controller including a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to receive the measured sound speed and determine, based on the measured sound spe...