ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,813, issued on March 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Gas leak detection device, gas leak detection system, and gas leak detection method" was invented by Daisuke Takei (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to provide a gas leak detection device and the like which are capable of detecting a gas leak from a pipe via a simple configuration. A gas leak detection device (2) comprises: a wind direction/wind speed detection means (21) that generates wind direction/wind speed information expressing the distribution of the wind directions and the wind speeds at the periphery of a pipe by means ...