ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,399, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TotalEnergies OneTech (Courbevoie, France).
"Hydrocarbon flow simulation" was invented by Alejandro Rodriguez Martinez (Courbevoie, France) and Stefano Frambati (Courbevoie, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention notably relates to computer-implemented designing of a geological simulation grid configured for hydrocarbon flow simulation in a geological environment. The designing of the geological simulation grid comprises providing (S10) a geometrical grid having cells and representing the geological environment; providing (S20) a structural model that represents geological surfaces...