US Patent Issued to PGS Geophysical AS on Feb. 10 for "System and method for generating source activation times or locations in blended marine seismic acquisitions" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,909, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to PGS Geophysical AS (Oslo, Norway).

"System and method for generating source activation times or locations in blended marine seismic acquisitions" was invented by Maiza Bekara (Weybridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method controls impulsive source activations in a blended acquisition marine seismic survey. A component of the system generates a sequence of dither values deterministically and stores the sequence of dither values, or source activation indicators derived therefrom, in a non-transitory medium readable by a control system operable to execute shot points ...