US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on Sept. 23 for "System and method for prediction of reservoir parameters with uncertainty quantification" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,581, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"System and method for prediction of reservoir parameters with uncertainty quantification" was invented by Ke Wang (Sugar Land, Texas), Jinsong Chen (Fulshear, Texas) and Yijie Zhou (Richmond, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described for seismic inversion with uncertainty quantification including performing low frequency Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) processes on rock physics models to generate low frequency models (LFMs) of rock properties and training a deep neural network using the low frequency models and synthetic seismograms t...