ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,079, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating elastic property data as a function of position and time in a subsurface volume of interest" was invented by Yang Zhang (Sugar Land, Texas) and Mark Allan Meadows (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for generating elastic property data as a function of position and time. Exemplary implementations may include obtaining a first initial elastic model and a first set of elastic parameters, obtaining training subsurface data and a first training elastic property dataset, genera...