ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,527, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Apparatus, method, and program product for determining a flaring efficiency estimate based on captured image data, a simulation model, and operations data" was invented by Shahrul Azman Bin Zainal Abidin (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), Madhukar Madhavamurthy Gundappa (Bangalore, India) and Ramesh Murugan Natarajan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for determining flaring efficiency based on captured image data and operations data are provided herein. For example, a computer-i...