ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,371, issued on Aug. 4.

"Enhanced systems and methods for observing, measuring, and controlling emissions" was invented by Stefan Metzger (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for controlling emissions by combining environmental response information, first environmental driver information and/or second environmental driver information to produce a space and time aligned data set that in turn can be used to produce a driver-response relationship model. Then using the driver-response relationship model to generate enhanced environmental response output information, which can be used to control emissions."

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