US Patent Issued to Elkins Earthworks on July 15 for "Portable gas monitor" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,948, issued on July 15, was assigned to Elkins Earthworks LLC (Wadsworth, Ohio).

"Portable gas monitor" was invented by Charles Daniel Elkins (Wadsworth, Ohio), David Ernest Walder (Wadsworth, Ohio), Holden Chase Leblanc (Wadsworth, Ohio), Steve Woodrow Smith (Wadsworth, Ohio) and Daniel Dwayne Duncan (Wadsworth, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable monitor used to measure landfill gas, landfill well parameters, and/or gas from a well, biogas facility, subterranean location, and any other testing location. The portable fluid monitor is particularly useful in measuring gas pressures and compositions of gases."

The patent wa...