US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on Feb. 24 for "Method and system for locating and quantifying fugitive emission leaks" (British, Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,504, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Method and system for locating and quantifying fugitive emission leaks" was invented by Andrew J. Trenchard (Romsey, Great Britain), Sean Scoggins (Rolesville, N.C.) and Bas Kastelein (Hippolytushoef, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for locating and quantifying fugitive gas emission leaks includes obtaining gas sensor data and wind direction data from a plurality of sensors and weather stations located proximate a given area of interest. The gas sensor data and the wind direction data is validated to remove erroneou...