US Patent Issued to The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Oxford, Saudi Arabian Oil on Feb. 3 for "Determining fracture roughness from a core" (Saudi Arabia, Argentinean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,884, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Oxford (Oxford, Great Britain) and Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Determining fracture roughness from a core" was invented by Mohammed M. Al-Fahmi (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Sait Ismail Ozkaya (Ankara, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for determining fracture roughness from a core is described. In examples, a drill core is scanned to obtain core images, and natural fractures in the core images are identified using sequential filtering. The identified natural fractures in the core i...