ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,375, issued on March 25, was assigned to CAMERON INTERNATIONAL Corp. (Houston).

"Method and apparatus for methane management" was invented by Kashif Rashid (Cambridge, Mass.), Lukasz Zielinski (Cambridge, Mass.) and Andrew J. Speck (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods presented herein generally relate to greenhouse gas emission management and, more particularly, to a greenhouse gas emission management workflow to perform greenhouse gas detection sensor placement or greenhouse gas leak detection. For example, the system and method enable improved gas sensor arrangements within an oil and gas worksite. ...