ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,924, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Automated record quality determination and processing for pollutant emission quantification" was invented by Lukasz Zielinski (Arlington, Mass.), Kashif Rashid (Wayland, Mass.), Junyi Yuan (Boston) and Andrew J. Speck (Milton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments presented provide for a method of evaluation for data that is inconsistent or that changes over time. These embodiments involve the processing of pollutants in a stream such that accuracy is maintained during the processing for high quality evaluation. The method includes ...