US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Sept. 16 for "Method for iterative first arrival picking using global path tracing" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,738, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for iterative first arrival picking using global path tracing" was invented by Dongliang Zhang (Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Constantinos Tsingas (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Tong Wang Fei (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed S. Mubarak (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Hong Liang (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automated first arrival picking are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a seismic dataset composed of a plurality of seismic gathers and determining a pilot for each gather, where the pilot includes a pos...