ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,254, issued on June 3, was assigned to Landmark Graphics Corp. (Houston).

"Self-adapting digital twins" was invented by Andrey Filippov (Houston), Egidio Marotta (Houston), Dale McMullin (Trophy Club, Texas) and Vitaly Khoriakov (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method can be used for implementing self-adapting digital twins. The system may include operations for estimate a state matrix characterizing behavior of a hydrocarbon recovery process implemented by a hydrocarbon recovery tool. Observed values of one or more sensors for at least one process parameter may be obtained from sensors deployed throughout ...