ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,774, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Field emissions system" was invented by Hussein Mustapha (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Samat Ramatullayev (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and Alaa Maarouf (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include receiving input for a field site in a field that emits methane and that includes a plurality of field sites, where a minority class of the field sites emit a majority of the methane; using a trained machine learning model and the input for the field site, making a determination as to whether the fie...