ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,610, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Raster image digitization system for field data" was invented by Omkar Anil Gune (Pune, India), Purnaprajna Raghavendra Mangsuli (Pune, India) and Atul Laxman Katole (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include receiving raster images of logs, where the logs include plots, tracks and headers and where, compared to the plots and the tracks, the headers are underrepresented; processing the raster images using a trained machine learning model to generate segmentation masks for the logs for identification of the plots, the t...