US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on March 4 for "Stratigraphic forward modeling platform and methods of use" (American, French, Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,013, issued on March 4, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Stratigraphic forward modeling platform and methods of use" was invented by Peter Tilke (Watertown, Mass.), Marie Etchebes (Clamart, France), Marie Emeline Cecile LeFranc (Lysaker, Norway), Lingchen Zhu (Medford, Mass.), Michael Lis (Houston) and Remy Sabathier (Orgeval, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process mimicking forward modeler with deposition and erosion at each specific geological time step. The 3D derived properties are high resolution depositional environments and rock properties that are used to generate multiscale labelle...