US 11,899,004 B2
Systems and methods for monitoring ocean-based carbon dioxide removal devices and accumulation of a target product
Luca Mastrangelo, Scarborough, ME (US); William Johnson, Marion, MA (US); Josh Hill, Marion, MA (US); Timothy J. Dyson, South Berwick, ME (US); Jacob F. Hagler, Portland, ME (US); Charles B. W. Halvorson, Portland, ME (US); Philipp Max Werminghausen, Boston, MA (US); and Andrew Clyde Thompson, Biddeford, ME (US)
Assigned to Running Tide Technologies, Inc., Portland, ME (US)
Filed by Running Tide Technologies, Inc., Portland, ME (US)
Filed on Jan. 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/156,615.
Application 18/156,615 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2022/079746, filed on Nov. 11, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/278,243, filed on Nov. 11, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0152292 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. G01N 33/18 (2006.01); G01N 21/64 (2006.01); B63B 22/20 (2006.01); B63B 79/15 (2020.01); B63B 35/00 (2020.01); H04N 23/50 (2023.01)
CPC G01N 33/1826 (2013.01) [B63B 22/20 (2013.01); B63B 35/00 (2013.01); B63B 79/15 (2020.01); G01N 21/645 (2013.01); H04N 23/50 (2023.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
releasing a deployment of passive substrates into a portion of a body of water, the passive substrates being seeded with a target product, the deployment including a sensor buoy, the sensor buoy including a first member configured to at least temporarily maintain a positive buoyancy of the sensor buoy, a second member seeded with the target product, and a sensing module having a sensor oriented toward at least a portion of the second member;
obtaining sensor data associated with at least one characteristic of the target product of the second member;
allowing the passive substrates and the target product seeded thereon to sink as a result of the passive substrates transitioning from a positively buoyant state to a negatively buoyant state;
determining, based at least in part on the sensor data, an amount of biomass accumulation associated with the target product of the second member when the passive substrates transition to the negatively buoyant state; and
determining a carbon sequestration capacity associated with the target product of the passive substrates based at least in part on the amount of biomass accumulation associated with the target product of the second member.