US Patent Issued to U.S. GOVERNMENT, as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY on March 11 for "System and method for quantifying source and component emission rates from a body in a flow field" (Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,945, issued on March 11, was assigned to U.S. GOVERNMENT, as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (Washington).

"System and method for quantifying source and component emission rates from a body in a flow field" was invented by Carl R. Fulper (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Timothy Hamacher Defries (Austin, Texas) and Scott Clinton Douglas (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method that remotely quantifies mass emission rates of emission material emitted from moving vehicles as they operate in real-time. Release locations of these emission materials may or may not coincide, and plumes gene...