ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,579, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for CO2 emission monitoring and prediction" was invented by Abdulaziz M. Alqahtani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammad Abdullah Al-Ghufaili (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a method for monitoring and predicting CO2 emissions at a gas processing plant. Quantitative data related to one or more characteristics of a gas stream of feed sources at the gas processing plant is continuously acquired. A correlation between the characteristics and a measured CO2 emission for the gas processing plant is...