ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,592, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Pattern search in image visualization" was invented by Hemantkumar Prakashbhai Makhijani (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include displaying, in a graphical user interface (GUI) of a display device, an image generated from a well log, receiving, via the GUI, a selection of a portion of the image, obtaining, for the portion of the image, search metadata, and deriving, from the portion of the image, a search pattern including a constraint on a value of a search parameter. The method may further include performing, using ...