ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,354, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Bridger Photonics Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Gas-mapping 3D imager measurement techniques and method of data processing" was invented by Michael Thorpe (Bozeman, Mont.), Aaron Kreitinger (Bozeman, Mont.) and Stephen Crouch (Bozeman, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Measurement approaches and data analysis methods are disclosed for combining 3D topographic data with spatially-registered gas concentration data to increase the efficiency of gas monitoring and leak detection tasks. Here, the metric for efficiency is defined as reducing the measurement time required to achieve the detection, or non...