US Patent Issued to DUG Technology (Australia) on Aug. 4 for "Seismic wavefield modeling honoring AVO/AVA with applications to full waveform inversion and least-squares imaging" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,195, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to DUG Technology (Australia) Pty Ltd. (West Perth, Australia).

"Seismic wavefield modeling honoring AVO/AVA with applications to full waveform inversion and least-squares imaging" was invented by Timothy Burgess (Subiaco, Australia), James McLeman (Subiaco, Australia), Mrinal Sinha (East Perth, Australia), Gary Hampson (Peppermint Grove, Australia) and Troy Thompson (Duncraig, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for modelling and migrating seismic data, that includes using an acoustic wave equation and a spatial distribution of one or more earth-model parameters. The acoustic wave equ...