US Patent Issued to CGG SERVICES on July 28 for "Multi-source with inline offset and method" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,976, issued on July 28, was assigned to CGG SERVICES SAS (Massy Cedex, France).

"Multi-source with inline offset and method" was invented by Shuo Ji (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-source for generating seismic waves includes plural source arrays, each source array being configured to generate seismic waves in water, and each source array being configured to be attached to a same towing vessel and plural umbilicals, each connecting a corresponding source array to the towing vessel. Each umbilical has a different length from the other umbilicals of the plural umbilicals when the plural source arrays are deployed in...