ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,409, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SeekOps Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Emissions estimate model algorithms and methods" was invented by Brendan James Smith (Lakeway, Texas), Anders Andelman Nottrott (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Andrew David Aubrey (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods including a processor having addressable memory, the processor configured to: receive an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data packet, where the UAV data packet comprises methane concentration data and UAV information from a UAV flight path; receive at least one Meteorological data packet, where the Meteorological data ...