US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A., TRIAD National Security on Sept. 16 for "Geomechanics informed machine intelligence" (Texas, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,382, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.) and TRIAD National Security LLC (Los Alamos, N.M.).

"Geomechanics informed machine intelligence" was invented by Rajesh S. Nair (Houston), Karim Shafik Zaki (Houston), Yan Li (Houston), Margaretha Catharina Maria Rijken (Houston) and Velimir Valentinov Vesselinov (Los Alamos, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for prediction of geomechanical performance including productivity index decline and completion integrity for a well or a hydrocarbon reservoir using a geomechanics informed machine intelligence (GIMI) algorithm. The...