US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on May 12 for "Detection of anomaly in a subsurface region" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,633, issued on May 12, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Detection of anomaly in a subsurface region" was invented by Robert Chadwick Holmes (Houston), Frank Tamakloe (Houston) and Fabien J. Laugier (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A region of interest may include a group of wells. The group of wells may be connected to form a graph of wells, with nodes representing wells and edges representing connections between wells. Connection scores from dynamic time warping paths for individual pairs of connected wells may be used to detect anomalies in the region of interest. Number of boundaries within individua...