ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,987, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to REBELLION PHOTONICS INC. (Houston).

"Gas leak emission quantification with a gas cloud imager" was invented by Robert Timothy Kester (Pearland, Texas), Nathan Adrian Hagen (Houston) and Ryan Mallery (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instrument and method for analyzing a gas leak. The instrument can obtain a time series of spectra from a scene. The instrument can compare spectra from different times to determine a property of a gas cloud within the scene. The instrument can estimate the column density of the gas cloud at one or more locations within the scene. The instrument can estimate ...