US Patent Issued to SHELL USA on July 15 for "Estimating time-lapse property changes of a subsurface volume" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,269, issued on July 15, was assigned to SHELL USA INC. (Houston).

"Estimating time-lapse property changes of a subsurface volume" was invented by Yuting Duan (Houston), Siyuan Yuan (Stanford, Calif.), Paul James Hatchell (Houston), Jeremy Paul Vila (Houston) and Kanglin Wang (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backpropagation enabled model is trained for estimating time-lapse property changes of a subsurface volume. Synthetic models of the subsurface volume are generated, with pre-determined property changes before and after a time lapse. These models are used to compute baseline-monitor pairs of synthetic seismic traces before...