ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,887, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Using artificial intelligence methods to exploit well logging data" was invented by Martin E. Poitzsch (Northumberland, N.H.), Chicheng Xu (Houston) and Shouxiang Ma (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for constructing a high fidelity logging while drilling (LWD) log that includes obtaining a temporal well depth log and a plurality of temporal LWD logs from a drilling operation. The method further includes obtaining a temporal record of operational drilling parameters from the drilling operation. The method further i...