US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Sept. 9 for "Method for locating a hydrocarbon-containing geologic formation and extracting oil and/or gas" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,257, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for locating a hydrocarbon-containing geologic formation and extracting oil and/or gas" was invented by Wail A. Mousa (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ahmed Abdelmoniem Mohamed Elmak (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for first arrival picking of seismic data includes receiving a seismic shot record data set from a seismic event, extracting texture features from the seismic shot record data set, calculating an energy ratio matrix from the seismic shot record data set, using fuzzy c-means to c...