ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,098, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Continuous monitoring system for detecting, locating, and quantifying fugitive emissions" was invented by Francisco Jose Gomez (Abingdon, Great Britain), Christopher Gerard Lunny (Menlo Park, Calif.), Carsten Falck Russenes (Sandsli, Norway), Minghao Pan (Abingdon, Great Britain) and Karl Staffan Tekin Eriksson (Abingdon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining where to place one or more devices at a site. Each device includes a first sensor configured to measure a concentration of a greenhouse gas (GHG). The...