ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,151, issued on July 8, was assigned to MATRIX JVCO LTD (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

"Artificial intelligence tool for geostress and geostrain analysis" was invented by Abdelwahab Noufal (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Rachid Belmeskine (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Mohamed Amri (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and Abed Benaichouche (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented system and method for conducting borehole image interpretation, by analyzing data relative to geological features planes orientations and the associated striae data, automatically checking the data consistenc...