ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,260, issued on May 27, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Radiant heat or thermal based flare efficiency monitoring" was invented by Glen Andrew Hay (Calgary, Canada), Andrew Emil Pomerantz (Lexington, Mass.), Athithan Dharmaratnam (Abingdon, Great Britain), Karl Staffan Tekin Eriksson (Abingdon, Great Britain) and Andrew J. Speck (Milton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods presented herein generally relate to determining flaring efficiency of a flare based at least in part on radiant or thermal heat generated by the flare that is detected by one or more flare monitors. In partic...