ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,657, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for lightweight in-field compression of seismic data" was invented by Naveed Iqbal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for in-field seismic data compression. The system includes geophones each having a 1-bit adaptive delta modulation for converting analog seismic signals to a modulated signal and transmitting the modulated signal, and a data collection center having a 1D convolutional neural network for receiving and compressing...