ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,681, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for facies-guided seismic image super-resolution" was invented by Adnan Hamida (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Motaz Alfarraj (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Salam A. Zummo (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Abdullatif A. Al-Shuhail (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facies classification apparatus and method of training the apparatus is provided for seismic image super-resolution. The apparatus includes an input for receiving a low resolution seismic images extracted from a seismic volume and a feature e...