ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,270, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Streaming of sub-titled data and processing model for fiber optics seismic operation" was invented by Takashi Mizuno (Houston) and Joel Herve Le Calvez (Richmond, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods may be used to process distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) data at oil and gas well sites to generate processed seismic data having metadata superimposed thereon, and then stream the combined processed seismic data and metadata to an off-site data processing center for further customized data processing. For example, a method may ...