US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on July 15 for "Cascaded machine-learning workflow for salt seismic interpretation" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,272, issued on July 15, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Cascaded machine-learning workflow for salt seismic interpretation" was invented by Anisha Kaul (Houston), Cen Li (Missouri City, Texas), Hiren Maniar (Houston) and Aria Abubakar (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining a top of salt (TOS) surface in a seismic volume based on a crossline direction of the seismic volume and an inline direction of the seismic volume. The method also includes determining a binary mask based upon the TOS surface. The method also includes sampling seismic data in the seismic v...