US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 21 for "Automatic salt geometry detection in a subsurface volume" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,556, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Automatic salt geometry detection in a subsurface volume" was invented by Tao Zhao (Houston), Chunpeng Zhao (Houston), Anisha Kaul (Houston) and Aria Abubakar (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving seismic data and an initial velocity model, generating a first seismic image based at least in part on the seismic data and the initial velocity model, training a machine learning model to predict salt masks based at least in part on seismic images, merging the initial velocity model and the first salt mask to generate a...