ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,466, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Raster image digitization using machine learning techniques" was invented by Atul Laxman Katole (Bangalore, India), Hiren Maniar (Houston), Denzil Francis Crasta (Mangalore, India), Preeti Gupta (Pune, India), Aria Abubakar (Sugar Land, Texas), Aaron Scollard (Houston), Ekansh Verma (Bengaluru, India) and Purnaprajna Mangsuli (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for digitizing image-based data includes receiving an image file including one or more target objects, generating an intermediate image by removing noise from the image...