US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Sept. 23 for "System and method for forming a seismic velocity model and imaging a subterranean region" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,579, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for forming a seismic velocity model and imaging a subterranean region" was invented by Weiguang He (Beijing), Yujin Liu (Beijing) and Song Han (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming an image of a subterranean region of interest, using an observed seismic dataset, a seismic velocity model and a simulated seismic dataset based in part, on the seismic velocity model is provided. This method includes forming trace pairs from the simulated and observed seismic dataset, wherein each of the trace pairs compr...