ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,946, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Landmark Graphics Corp. Inc. (Houston).

"Seismic navigation data quality analysis" was invented by Samiran Roy (Bangalore, India), Shreshth Srivastav (Bangalore, India), Bhaskar Mandapaka (Bangalore, India) and Satyam Priyadarshy (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes can be employed to select cartographic reference system (CRS) recommendations from a CRS model where the CRS recommendations are matched to received seismic data. A learning mode can be used to build the CRS model where seismic data is matched to CRS. The learning mode can be automated using natural language processing ...