ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,266, issued on June 24, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Subterranean parameter sensing systems and methods" was invented by Kevin Forsythe Smith (Pleasanton, Calif.), Artem Goncharuk (Mountain View, Calif.), Allen Richard Zhao (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jonathan Gray Wilfong (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration sensor system includes an underground sub-assembly including one or more sensors configured to detect at least one attribute associated with CO2 sequestration below a terranean surface; and an above-ground sub-assembly positionable on the terranean...