ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,837, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Real-time automated geosteering interpretation using adaptive combined heatmaps" was invented by Shahin Tasoujian (Houston), Siyang Song (Houston), Eirik Hansen (Stavanger, Norway), Robert P. Darbe (Houston) and Vytautas Usaitis (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intuitive automated geosteering interpretation method and system that creates a geological model of a subterranean formation using an adaptive combined heatmap is provided. The adaptive combined heatmap is generated from individual heatmaps that each correspond to a specific type o...