US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 25 for "Methods and systems for characterizing methane emission employing mobile methane emission detection" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,922, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Methods and systems for characterizing methane emission employing mobile methane emission detection" was invented by Raphael Gadot (Sugar land, Texas) and Ali Rezaei (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches to characterizing methane emission at an industrial facility using an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) equipped with navigational instruments and methane gas sensors. A scan area associated with the industrial facility is defined. The scan area can be logically partitioned into a plurality of pixels based on information provided by an i...