ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,759, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Landmark Graphics Corp. (Houston).

"Supervised machine learning-based wellbore correlation" was invented by Marc Paul Servais (Reading, Great Britain) and Graham Baines (Abingdon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing wellbore correlation across multiple wellbores includes predicting a depth alignment across the wellbores based on a geological feature of the wellbores. Predicting a depth alignment includes selecting a reference wellbore, defining a control point in a reference signal of a reference well log for the reference wellbore, and generating an input tile fr...