US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on July 15 for "Adaptive noise estimation and removal method for microseismic data" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,273, issued on July 15, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Adaptive noise estimation and removal method for microseismic data" was invented by Naveed Iqbal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Bo Liu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data-driven linear filtering method to recover microseismic signals from noisy data/observations based on statistics of background noise and observation, which are directly extracted from recorded data without prior statistical knowledge of the microseismic source signal. The method does not depend on any specific underlying noise statist...