ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,655, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CGG SERVICES SAS (Massy Cedex, France).

"Seismic data processing using DUnet" was invented by Hanyuan Peng (Paris), Jeremie Messud (Palaiseau, France), Celine Lacombe (Massy, France) and Paulien Jeunesse (Antony, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DUnet engine produces a processed image of seismic data acquired over an underground formation. The DUnet engine includes: a contractive path that performs multilayer convolutions and contraction to extract a code from the seismic data input to the DUnet, an expansive path configured to perform multilayer convolutions and expansion of the code, u...