US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 23 for "Formation porosity estimation from digital images" (American, French, Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,588, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Formation porosity estimation from digital images" was invented by Simone Di Santo (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Tetsushi Yamada (Cambridge, Mass.), Ilaria De Santo (Paris), Karim Bondabou (Clamart, France) and Wael Abdallah (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating a porosity of a rock sample includes acquiring a calibrated digital image of the rock sample, extracting color and texture features from the digital image of the rock sample, and estimating the porosity of the rock sample using a model to evaluate the e...