ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,392, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method to correct VSP data" was invented by Mohammed Ibrahim Albabli (Qatif, Saudi Arabia), Hussain Alnasser (Safwa, Saudi Arabia) and Hamad Alswaidan (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed. The method includes obtaining vertical seismic profiling (VSP) data and surface seismic (SS) data for a subterranean region of interest. The VSP data includes a corrupt section and a valid section. The method further includes determining a VSP attribute and a VSP spectrum using the VSP data, determining an SS...