Patents Assigned to SEEKOPS INC.
  • Patent number: 12281983
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for a gas sensor comprising one or more optical cells; a processor having addressable memory, the processor configured to: detect gas from the one or more optical cells of the gas sensor, where the detected gas is one or more of: methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, water, ammonia, sulfur oxides, and nitrogen; record data corresponding to the detected gas, where the recorded data comprises at least one of: an ambient temperature from a temperature sensor, an ambient pressure from a pressure sensor, an aerial vehicle telemetry, and an aerial vehicle location from a global positioning system (GPS); and generate a map of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration on a map based on the detected gas and the recorded data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: SeekOps Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan James Smith, Victor Alexander Miller, II, Andrew David Aubrey
  • Patent number: 12276597
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods including a modified Herriot cell comprising: a laser configured to generate a single beam; a partially transmissive region (PTR) disposed in at least one of: a first mirror and a second mirror, where a first portion of the single beam is received through the PTR, and wherein a second portion of the single beam is reflected by the PTR; a first detector disposed proximate the PTR, wherein the first detector receives the first portion of the beam, and where the first portion of the beam has traveled a first path length from the laser to the first detector; and a second detector disposed proximate the exit hole, where the second detector receives the second portion of the beam, and wherein the second portion of the beam has traveled a second path length from the laser to the second detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: SeekOps Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan James Smith, Victor Alexander Miller, II, James Rutherford
  • Patent number: 12216105
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for receiving, by a ground control station (GCS) having a processor with addressable memory, a plurality of point source gas concentration measurements; receiving, by the GCS, a meteorological data corresponding to each point source concentration gas measurement; determining, by the GCS, if each point source gas concentration measurement is an elevated ambient gas concentration; generating, by the GCS, a back trajectory for each elevated ambient gas concentration; storing, by the GCS, the position of each generated back trajectory in a grid; determining, by the GCS, a probability of a gas source location corresponding to the stored positions in the grid; and generating, by the GCS, an overlay showing the probability of the gas source location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SeekOps Inc.
    Inventors: Anders Andelman Nottrott, Brendan James Smith, Andrew David Aubrey
  • Patent number: 12217412
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods including: an optical gas imaging (OGI) camera; a processor in communication with the OGI camera, the processor configured to: capture at least two images of a scene with the camera; compare the captured at least two images to determine at least one of: a motion associated with a movement of the camera and a motion associated with a movement of a gas plume; apply a color to each pixel of the captured images based on at least one of: a direction of movement and a velocity of movement between the at least two captured images; subtract pixels from the colored pixels associated with the movement of the camera; and generate an image of an output of a gas plume based on the subtracted pixels and the applied color pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SeekOps Inc.
    Inventor: Guillermo Vargas
  • Patent number: 12197233
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods including a processor having addressable memory, where the processor is configured to: determine one or more flight paths for an aerial vehicle, where the determined flight path creates a continuous surface about one or more potential gas sources of a survey site receive a trace gas data from one or more trace gas sensors of the aerial vehicle of the continuous surface as the aerial vehicle flies the determined one or more flight paths; and determine based on the received trace gas data whether a gas leak is present in the received survey site and a rate of the gas leak if present in the survey site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SeekOps Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Alexander Miller, II, Brendan James Smith, Stuart Buckingham
  • Patent number: 12188847
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods including an aerial vehicle having a global positioning system (GPS) and at least one trace-gas sensor configured to generate gas data; and a processor having addressable memory, the processor configured to: determine a flight envelope based on a received spatial location, a received spatial location of the one or more potential gas sources, a received desired level of confidence, and a received wind data; determine a flight path for the aerial vehicle, where the flight path covers a portion of the determined flight envelope; and determine based on a received gas data whether a gas leak is present in the received spatial location to the received desired level of confidence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SeekOps Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Alexander Miller, II, Stuart Buckingham, Brendan James Smith, Michael Price McGuire
  • Patent number: 12188912
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); a trace gas sensor disposed on the UAV, where the gas sensor is configured to measure a gas point concentration; a wind sensor, where the wind sensor is configured to determine a discrete wind vector corresponding to the gas point concentration measurement; and where the discrete wind vector and gas point concentration measurement are acquired substantially concurrently and co-locally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SeekOps Inc.
    Inventors: Stuart Buckingham, Brendan James Smith, Victor Alexander Miller, II
  • Patent number: 12130204
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for a mobile vehicle, the mobile vehicle comprising a base station; an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), where the UAV is launched from the base station; a payload disposed on the UAV, where the payload is configured to generate payload data of at least one infrastructure, and where the payload data comprises at least one of: a gas sensor data, an infrared imager for optical gas imaging (OGI) camera data, an infrared imager tuned for radiometric measurement camera data, a visible camera data, and a 3D mapping data; and a processor in communication with the UAV and the payload, where the processor is configured to determine an integrity of the at least one infrastructure based on payload data from the payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SeekOps Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew David Aubrey, Brendan James Smith
  • Patent number: 12055485
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods including one or more optical cavities; one or more light sources configured to emit a specified wavelength or band of wavelengths of light; and one or more photovoltaic detectors configured to receive the emitted light that has traveled over one or more path lengths, where the one or more photovoltaic detectors are configured to detect at least one of: a first trace gas species and a second trace gas species.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SeekOps Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan James Smith, Iain Michael Cooper
  • Patent number: 12044666
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods including a handheld sensing device comprising: a sensor configured to measure ambient methane, ethane, propane, butane, and/or pentane concentrations; and a handle, where the sensor is disposed on a first end of the handle; control electronics comprising: a processor having addressable memory, the processor in communication with the sensor, where the processor is configured to: receive the measured ambient gas concentrations; and detect elevated ambient gas concentrations that may be attributed to a natural gas emissions source based on the measured ambient gas concentrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SeekOps Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan James Smith, Garrett Niall John, Andrew David Aubrey, Anders Andelman Nottrott, Victor Alexander Miller, II
  • Patent number: 12015386
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods including a first band-pass filter configured to receive and filter a detector signal, where the first band-pass filter has a central frequency of 2f; a second band-pass filter configured to receive and filter the detector signal where the second band-pass filter has a central frequency of 1f; a first logarithmic amplifier (Log Amp) configured to apply the filtered detector signal from the first band-pass filter; a second Log Amp configured to apply the filtered detector signal from the second band-pass filter; a differential amplifier configured to subtract the applied signal from the first Log Amp from the applied signal from the second Log Amp; and an Anti-Log Amplifier configured to determine an inverse logarithm of the subtracted signal from the differential amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: SeekOps Inc.
    Inventors: Javad Rezanezhad Gatabi, Brendan James Smith
  • Patent number: 11994464
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for a trace-gas sensor configured to generate a raw detector signal (118) based on a gas sample; an analog processing configured to filter, amplify, lock-in, and/or normalize the generated raw detector signal; analog to digital converters configured to convert the filtered and amplified detector signal to a digital signal; and a drive computer configured to: receive the converted digital signal from the analog to digital converters; and apply a spectroscopic model to the received digital signal to extract one or more properties of the gas sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: SeekOps Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Alexander Miller, II, Brendan James Smith
  • Patent number: 11988598
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for an optical head enclosure of a sensor; one or more imbedded nozzles disposed on a surface of the optical head enclosure; an inlet of the one or more imbedded nozzles, where the inlet comprises a nozzle channel for receiving a cleaning solution; a flow channel internal to the optical head enclosure, where the nozzle channel is connected to the flow channel, and where the flow channel comprises an outlet for dispersing the cleaning solution received from the nozzle channel; wherein the inlet comprises a break to stop a nozzle of a cleaning device from reaching a mirror of the sensor; where the outlet directs the cleaning solution from the inlet onto the mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SEEKOPS INC.
    Inventors: Garrett Niall John, Iain Cooper, Andrew David Aubrey
  • Patent number: 11748866
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods including: an optical gas imaging (OGI) camera; a processor in communication with the OGI camera, the processor configured to: capture at least two images of a scene with the camera; compare the captured at least two images to determine at least one of: a motion associated with a movement of the camera and a motion associated with a movement of a gas plume; apply a color to each pixel of the captured images based on at least one of: a direction of movement and a velocity of movement between the at least two captured images; subtract pixels from the colored pixels associated with the movement of the camera; and generate an image of an output of a gas plume based on the subtracted pixels and the applied color pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SEEKOPS INC.
    Inventor: Guillermo Vargas
  • Patent number: 11614430
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); a trace gas sensor disposed on the UAV, where the gas sensor is configured to measure a gas point concentration; a wind sensor, where the wind sensor is configured to determine a discrete wind vector corresponding to the gas point concentration measurement; and where the discrete wind vector and gas point concentration measurement are acquired substantially concurrently and co-locally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SEEKOPS INC.
    Inventors: Stuart Buckingham, Brendan James Smith, Victor Alexander Miller, II