ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,818, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Detecting gas leaks from image data and leak detection models" was invented by Anatoly Aseev (Menlo Park, Calif.), Andrey Sergeevich Konchenko (Menlo Park, Calif.), Jose R. Celaya Galvan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Indranil Roychoudhury (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Prasham Sheth (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving, via one or more processors, a set of image data representative of equipment configured to distribute a gas. The method may then involve determining a type of equipment depicted in the first set of im...