US Patent Issued to BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA on March 3 for "Method and apparatus for seismic data inversion" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,278, issued on March 3, was assigned to BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC. (Houston).

"Method and apparatus for seismic data inversion" was invented by York Zheng (Surbiton, Great Britain), Matthew Walker (Hersham, Great Britain), Reetam Biswas (Houston), Jingfeng Zhang (Katy, Texas), Ryan Warnick (Austin, Texas), Pedro Paramo De La Barrera (Richmond, Great Britain) and Kevin Wolf (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to allow for increases in the accuracy of the determination of properties of a formation (e.g., a formation's fluid content, porosity, density, etc.) or seismic velocity, shear wave information, etc. are...