US Patent Issued to Dassault Systemes Americas on Sept. 22 for "Prediction of mechanical properties of sedimentary rocks based on a grain to grain parametric cohesive contact model" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,852, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Dassault Systemes Americas Corp. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Prediction of mechanical properties of sedimentary rocks based on a grain to grain parametric cohesive contact model" was invented by Zhuang Sun (San Francisco), Rafael Salazar-Tio (San Francisco), Andrew Fager (San Francisco) and Bernd Crouse (Brisbane, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are computer implemented techniques for conducting a simulation of physical properties of a porous medium. The features include receiving a micro-CT 3D image that captures a representative elemental volume of the porous medium, the porous mediu...