公开(公告)号：US11994464B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-28

申请号：US17601538

申请日：2020-04-01

Applicant: SeekOps Inc.

Inventor： Victor Alexander Miller, II ,  Brendan James Smith

IPC: G01N21/39

CPC classification number: G01N21/39 ,  G01N2201/125

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.

公开(公告)号：US20240028051A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-25

申请号：US17766299

申请日：2020-10-02

Applicant: SeekOps Inc.

Inventor： Victor Alexander Miller, II ,  Brendan James Smith ,  Stuart Buckingham

IPC: G05D1/10 ,  G01M3/04

CPC classification number: G05D1/101 ,  G01M3/04 ,  B64U2201/10 ,  B64U2101/35

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.

公开(公告)号：US20230194487A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-22

申请号：US18110285

申请日：2023-02-15

Applicant: SeekOps Inc.

Inventor： Stuart Buckingham ,  Brendan James Smith ,  Victor Alexander Miller, II

IPC: G01N33/00 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G01W1/02

CPC classification number: G01N33/0009 ,  B64C39/024 ,  G01W1/02 ,  B64U2101/00

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.

公开(公告)号：US20220341806A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-27

申请号：US17761734

申请日：2020-09-19

Applicant: SeekOps Inc.

Inventor： Victor Alexander Miller, II ,  Brendan James Smith ,  Stuart Buckingham

IPC: G01M3/20

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for scanning a laser into wings of an absorption feature; fitting a polynomial to the edges of the scan; dividing a transmitted signal by a fit-derived baseline to compute a transmission of the light; fitting a spectral model with the transmitted signal; and solving for a mole fraction.

公开(公告)号：US20220165162A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-26

申请号：US17601623

申请日：2020-04-01

Applicant: SeekOps Inc.

Inventor： Brendan James Smith ,  Victor Alexander Miller, II ,  Michael Price McGuire ,  Stuart Buckingham

IPC: G08G5/00 ,  B64C39/02

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods including receiving, by a processor having addressable memory, a spatial location of one or more known assets; determining, by the processor, one or more clusters based on the received spatial location of the one or more known assets; determining, by the processor, a bound for each asset of the one or more known assets in each cluster; and determining, by the processor, a flight plan for an aerial vehicle for each cluster, where the flight plan surveys each asset in each cluster.

公开(公告)号：US12276597B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-15

申请号：US17797402

申请日：2021-02-05

Applicant: SeekOps Inc.

Inventor： Brendan James Smith ,  Victor Alexander Miller, II ,  James Rutherford

IPC: G01N21/03 ,  G01N21/3504

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.

公开(公告)号：US12197233B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-14

申请号：US17766299

申请日：2020-10-02

Applicant: SeekOps Inc.

Inventor： Victor Alexander Miller, II ,  Brendan James Smith ,  Stuart Buckingham

IPC: G05D1/00 ,  B64U10/14 ,  G01M3/04 ,  B64U101/00 ,  B64U101/35

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.

公开(公告)号：US12188912B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-07

申请号：US18110285

申请日：2023-02-15

Applicant: SeekOps Inc.

Inventor： Stuart Buckingham ,  Brendan James Smith ,  Victor Alexander Miller, II

IPC: G01W1/02 ,  B64U101/00 ,  G01N33/00

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.

公开(公告)号：US20240319153A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-26

申请号：US18737718

申请日：2024-06-07

Applicant: SeekOps Inc.

Inventor： Brendan James Smith ,  Garrett Niall John ,  Andrew David Aubrey ,  Anders Andelman Nottrott ,  Victor Alexander Miller, II

IPC: G01N33/00 ,  G01N1/24 ,  G01N21/3504

CPC classification number: G01N33/0009 ,  G01N1/24 ,  G01N21/3504 ,  G01N33/0011 ,  G01N33/0016 ,  G01N33/0031 ,  G01N33/0068 ,  G01N2201/0221

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.

公开(公告)号：US20220178821A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-09

申请号：US17601538

申请日：2020-04-01

Applicant: SeekOps Inc.

Inventor： Victor Alexander Miller, II ,  Brendan James Smith

IPC: G01N21/39

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.