US Patent Issued to ENI on Sept. 1 for "Process for identifying a sub-sample and a method for determining the petrophysical properties of a rock sample" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,964, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ENI S.P.A. (Rome).

"Process for identifying a sub-sample and a method for determining the petrophysical properties of a rock sample" was invented by Marco Miarelli (San Donato Milanese, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process to identify a representative sub-sample of a rock sample includes the following steps: digitally acquiring at low resolution first 2D or 3D images of the rock sample, and by a recomposition of the first images along a direction representing a digital sample; subdividing with a volumetric subdivision the digital sample defining 3D digital blocks having a volume of su...