US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Sept. 30 for "Automated facies classification from well logs" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,624, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Automated facies classification from well logs" was invented by Vasileios-Marios Gkortsas (Boston) and Lin Liang (Belmont, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Facies of a formation are classified from data charactering properties of a portion of the formation as a function of depth, wherein the number of facies is determined automatically in an unsupervised manner without human input. In one embodiment, a layer-based methodology is provided that performs facies classification based on layer-based properties which are determined from well lo...