US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on March 24 for "Fluid leak detection, localization, and quantification with confidence" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,814, issued on March 24, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Fluid leak detection, localization, and quantification with confidence" was invented by Nikolaos Ioannis Salmatanis (Cypress, Texas), Tyrone Jenkins (Sugar Land, Texas) and Larry A. Bowden Jr. (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Infrared images of a fluid facility are captured to detect, localize, and quantify fluid leaks with confidence at the fluid facility. Changes in pixel values for a fluid leak, which reflect changes in temperature due to the fluid leak, are used to quantify the fluid leak. The location of the fluid leak is identified using ...