Patents by Inventor SEAN COBURN

SEAN COBURN has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Determining a location and size of a gas source with a spectrometer gas monitor
    Patent number: 10240998
    Abstract: A process for determining a location and size of a gas source within an area with a spectrometer gas monitor includes: providing the spectrometer gas monitor; performing fence line monitoring of the area with the spectrometer gas monitor; collecting spectroscopic data over multiple open paths around the area with the spectrometer gas monitor; measuring atmospheric conditions along gas inflows and gas outflows of the area; subtracting a background for a selected gas from the spectroscopic data; applying a boundary constraint to the spectroscopic data; determining an atmospheric concentration of air entering the area; applying bootstrapping to the spectroscopic data; applying zero minimum elimination to the spectroscopic data; and producing inversion data from the spectroscopic data to determine the location and size of the gas source within the area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignees: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate
    Inventors: Kuldeep Prasad, Caroline Alden, Gregory Brian Rieker, Robert James Wright, Sean Coburn
  • DETERMINING A LOCATION AND SIZE OF A GAS SOURCE WITH A SPECTROMETER GAS MONITOR
    Publication number: 20180045596
    Abstract: A process for determining a location and size of a gas source within an area with a spectrometer gas monitor includes: providing the spectrometer gas monitor; performing fence line monitoring of the area with the spectrometer gas monitor; collecting spectroscopic data over multiple open paths around the area with the spectrometer gas monitor; measuring atmospheric conditions along gas inflows and gas outflows of the area; subtracting a background for a selected gas from the spectroscopic data; applying a boundary constraint to the spectroscopic data; determining an atmospheric concentration of air entering the area; applying bootstrapping to the spectroscopic data; applying zero minimum elimination to the spectroscopic data; and producing inversion data from the spectroscopic data to determine the location and size of the gas source within the area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: KULDEEP PRASAD, CAROLINE ALDEN, SUBHOMOY GHOSH, GREGORY BRIAN RICKER, ROBERT JAMES WRIGHT, SEAN COBURN