ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,810, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Foster Findlay Associates Ltd. (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain).
"Multiple horizon extraction" was invented by Michael Montouchet (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods, apparatus, and computer programs disclosed herein are for obtaining horizon data, and comprise determining at least one extrema binary volume from a seismic data volume comprising a plurality of voxels and assigning a predetermined extrema value to each one of the found extreme voxels; determining an extrema graph from the at least one extrema binary volume; determini...