ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,007, issued on June 2, was assigned to EQUINOR ENERGY AS (Stavanger, Norway).

"Estimating primary and secondary acoustic velocities in rock" was invented by Harald Flesche (Nesttun, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of estimating the primary and secondary acoustic velocities, Vp and Vs, of formation surrounding a first wellbore includes obtaining well logging data for a multiplicity of other wellbores to collect, for each other wellbore a plurality of input data sets including at least a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance logging data set, and an element composition scanning data set. The operation further collects, for each othe...