US Patent Issued to TotalEnergies OneTech on May 20 for "Method and system for estimating flared gas quantities by using SWIR images acquired by a spaceborne image sensor" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,691, issued on May 20, was assigned to TotalEnergies OneTech (Courbevoie, France).

"Method and system for estimating flared gas quantities by using SWIR images acquired by a spaceborne image sensor" was invented by Benoit Blanco (Pau, France) and Leo Turon (Pau, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for estimating a quantity of gas flared at a gas flaring site includes obtaining a short-wave infrared, SWIR, estimation image of the gas flaring site. The estimation image is acquired by a spaceborne image sensor and includes pixels representing a radiation measured in the SWIR wavelength band. The estimatio...