ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,618, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TotalEnergies OneTech (Courbevoie, France).
"Method for modelling the formation of a sedimentary area by simulating tidal current-induced particle transport" was invented by Gerard Massonnat (Pau, France) and Charles Danquigny (Pau, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for simulating the evolution of a geological gridded model of an area comprising a plurality of cells, over a predetermined period of time T, comprising: a) assigning a water depth to each cell, b) determining, for each cell, a direction and velocity of a water current, c) introducing a number of particles in the model,...