ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,511, issued on March 25, was assigned to Shearwater GeoServices Software Inc. (Houston).

"Offshore application of non-uniform optimal sampling survey design" was invented by Zhengxue Li (Houston), Yunqing Shen (Houston), Jianxing Hu (Houston), Yong Ma (Houston), Feng Chen (Houston), Yu Zhang (Houston), Chengbo Li (Houston), Charles C. Mosher (Houston), Frank D. Janiszewski (Houston), Laurence S. Williams (Houston), Jeffrey Malloy (Katy, Texas), Bradley Bankhead (Houston) and Jon Anderson (Manson, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for acquiring seismic data is described. The method includes obtaining undersampled seismic da...