ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,696, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CGG SERVICES SAS (Massy Cedex, France).

"System and method for wave equation deconvolution for internal multiple attenuation" was invented by Gordon Poole (East Grinstead, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for internal multiple attenuation of seismic data associated with a subsurface. The method includes receiving seismic data d associated with the subsurface, wherein the seismic data d includes primaries and internal multiples, receiving a first reflectivity r1 associated with a first formation in the subsurface, calculating a second reflectivity r2 associated with a seco...