US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 15 for "Estimating emission source location from satellite imagery" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,515, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Estimating emission source location from satellite imagery" was invented by Theodore G. van Kessel (Millbrook, N.Y.), Levente Klein (Tuckahoe, N.Y.), Bruce Gordon Elmegreen (Goldens Bridge, N.Y.) and Eloisa Bentivegna (Warrington, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach for estimating emission source location from satellite plume data, a processor creates a dataset of plume concentration data. A processor down samples the dataset to an array at satellite resolution. A processor partitions the array into two separate da...