ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,002, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Automated lithology instance segmentation model evaluation and update" was invented by Laura Su (Clamart, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects provide a method of automated lithology at a wellbore. The method includes imaging cuttings collected while drilling the wellbore. The method includes one or more processors: obtaining, from an instance segmentation machine learning model, one or more lithology predictions associated with the wellbore based on the images; determining one or more performance metric scores for the instance segmen...