ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,765, issued on April 15, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Implicit property modeling" was invented by Frantz Maerten (Pignan, France), Emmanuel Malvesin (Montpellier, France), Julien Renaudeau (Asker, Norway) and Tormod Slettemeas (Asker, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of simulating a process of a geological structure includes obtaining a first digital model including structural data representing a geological structure. The method also includes selecting at least one marching technique based in part on a grid dimension and a grid cell shape of a grid on the first digital model. The me...