ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,006, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Apparatus and method to measure flare burner fallout" was invented by Konstantin Mikhailovich Serdyuk (Berdsk, Russia), Roman Alexandrovich Skachkov (Quincy, Mass.), Dilara Ildusovna Serdyuk (Novosibirsk, Russia), Grigory Yurievich Mikhalev (Novosibirsk, Russia), Barbara Zielinska (Palaiseau, France) and Eduardo Vidal (Atyrau, Kazakhstan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to measure fallout from a liquid flare burner. An example apparatus includes a device configurator to invoke ...