ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,006, issued on April 22, was assigned to Loci Controls Inc. (Wareham, Mass.).

"Enhanced reliability and calibration of landfill gas measurement and control devices" was invented by Andrew Campanella (Somerville, Mass.), Ian Martin (Higganum, Conn.), Joseph G. Michels (Pocono Summit, Pa.), Nathan Pallo (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Peter Quigley (Duxbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for sampling landfill gas from a landfill flowing through a pipe. The apparatus may comprise: an enclosure configured to receive a section of the pipe; a gas sampling port in the section of the pipe; at least one sensor device disposed i...