US Patent Issued to BP Corporation North America on Sept. 15 for "Method and apparatus for implementing full waveform inversion using angle gathers" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,697, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to BP Corporation North America Inc. (Houston).

"Method and apparatus for implementing full waveform inversion using angle gathers" was invented by Hu Jin (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for implementing a full waveform inversion (FWI) process using angle gathers includes; receiving observed seismic data associated with a subsurface region and captured by one or more seismic receivers, constructing based on the observed seismic data, a scalar velocity model and one or more vector velocity model partitions, where the one or more vector velocity model partitions correspond to one ...