US Patent Issued to Landmark Graphics on April 29 for "Automated fault segment generation" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,442, issued on April 29, was assigned to Landmark Graphics Corp. (Houston).

"Automated fault segment generation" was invented by Xuan Nam Nguyen (Houston), Sinan Tufekci (Houston) and Alejandro Jaramillo (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure presents processes to automatically generate one or more set of fault segments from a fault plane pointset. The processes can identify a predominant direction and derive a set of fault segments from the fault plane pointset, where the fault segments are generated by using slices of data from the fault plane pointset that are perpendicular to the predominant direct...