ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,884, issued on July 7, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Gas migration estimation device, gas migration estimation method, estimation model generation device, estimation model generation method, and program" was invented by Motohiro Asano (Osaka, Japan), Takashi Morimoto (Suita, Japan) and Shunsuke Takamura (Tama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimation device and an estimation method are capable of detecting whether or not gas is flowing in a distal-proximal direction from a viewpoint even in a case where gas monitoring is performed on the basis of only an image from one viewpoint. The gas migration estimation ...