ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,622, issued on March 18, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Computing emission rate from gas density images" was invented by Andrew J. Speck (Milton, Mass.), Manasi Doshi (Cambridge, Mass.) and Lukasz Zielinski (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for calculating an emission rate of a fugitive gas based on a gas density image of the fugitive gas. In an example, a computing device receives a gas density image of a fugitive gas from a camera. The computing device determines how to optimize the fugitive gas in the camera's field of view and instructions the ...