US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on Sept. 30 for "Methods and systems for seismic monitoring" (Czech, Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,617, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods and systems for seismic monitoring" was invented by Leo Eisner (Prague), Oleh Kalinichenko (Prague), Frantisek Stanek (Plzen, Czech Republic), Umair Bin Waheed (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Sherif Mohamed Hanafy Mahmoud (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Zuzana Jechumtalova (Prague).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining a depth z to install a borehole receiver in a monitoring borehole includes a seismic source, a seismic receiver, an antenna, a computing device and a drilling system. The seismic source gener...