US Patent Issued to EOG Resources on March 11 for "Intelligent automated prevention of high pressure flare events" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,462, issued on March 11, was assigned to EOG Resources Inc. (Houston).

"Intelligent automated prevention of high pressure flare events" was invented by Pratik Kharel (Houston), Mark Xavier Metzger (Houston), Michael Jiale Yang (Houston), Andrew Michael Mealey (Houston) and Liz Mydung Thai (Pearland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method for preventing flaring at a facility, by a system, includes receiving a plurality of pressure measurements from a sensor disposed downstream of the facility. The method further includes comparing the plurality of pressure measurements to a threshold pressure, wherein the th...