US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Nov. 18 for "Determining a property of a gas plume produced by burning hydrocarbon effluent" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,257, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Determining a property of a gas plume produced by burning hydrocarbon effluent" was invented by Sebastien Catheline (Clamart, France) and Francis Allouche (Clamart, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gas monitoring systems (500) and methods for determining a burning hydrocarbon effluent gas plume property. A laser emission system emits laser beams (564) along a path through the plume (532). A detection system facilitates determining intensity data indicative of intensities of the laser beams (564) backscattered by a surface (522) after pass...