ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,032, issued on Feb. 17.
"Method and system for seismic data compression and noise reduction" was invented by Jonathan S. Abel (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Sean A. Coffin (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the field of seismic data collection and analysis, the problem of data compression is considered. It is desired to reduce the storage and transmission requirements of seismic data, such as associated with microseismic monitoring and processing, VSP (vertical seismic profile) surveys, and the like, for instance using a distributed acoustic sensor (DAS), which can generate in excess of 50 GB of data per hour on a surv...