US Patent Issued to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering on Nov. 4 for "Classifying geologic features in seismic data through image analysis" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,262, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Co. (Spring, Texas).

"Classifying geologic features in seismic data through image analysis" was invented by Glenn K. Miers (Houston), Dennis C. Furlaneto (The Woodlands, Texas) and Brian D. Hughes (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the technology described herein identify geologic features within seismic data using modern computer analysis. An initial step is the development of training data for the machine classifier. The training data comprises an image of seismic data paired with a label identifying points of interest that the classifier sh...