ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,530, issued on June 10, was assigned to BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC. (Houston).
"Low-frequency seismic survey design" was invented by Dianne Ni (Katy, Texas), Imtiaz Ahmed (Katy, Texas) and Andrew Brenders (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, and system to implement the process, of selecting a plurality of sets of source and receiver locations over a survey area, modeling on a subsurface attribute model of a subterranean region each source and receiver pair of the plurality of sets of source and receiver locations to generate low frequency seismic data, performing a reverse time migration on the low frequency seismi...