US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on May 20 for "Generating geological facies models with fidelity to the diversity and statistics of training images using improved generative adversarial networks" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,594, issued on May 20, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Generating geological facies models with fidelity to the diversity and statistics of training images using improved generative adversarial networks" was invented by Lingchen Zhu (Cambridge, Mass.) and Tuanfeng Zhang (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Neural network systems and related machine learning methods for geological modeling are provided that employ an improved generative adversarial network including a generator neural network and a discriminator neural network. The generator neural network is trained to map a combination...