US Patent Issued to QLM Technology on Sept. 9 for "Accurate measurement of methane gas leak flow rate" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,153, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to QLM Technology Ltd (Paignton, Great Britain).

"Accurate measurement of methane gas leak flow rate" was invented by Murray Keith Reed (Paignton, Great Britain) and Xiao Ai (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for detecting and measuring gas flow are disclosed in which lidar distance information, acquired during the detection of gas using a lidar sensor, is used together with local wind data to determine a rate of flow for the detected gas. The local wind data, which may comprise one or more vectors or a 3D wind model, may be determined based on prevailing w...