US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on May 12 for "Real-time flare optimization using an edge device" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,834, issued on May 12, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Real-time flare optimization using an edge device" was invented by Gian-Marcio Gey (London) and Andrew Emil Pomerantz (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated systems and methods are provided for continuous monitoring of the flaring of waste gas at an industrial facility, which employ an RGB camera operably coupled to a gateway device by a data communication interface. The RGB camera is configured to capture time-series color image frames of a flare and communicate the time-series color image frames to the gateway device. The g...