ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,196, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Co. (Spring, Texas).
"Framework for integration of geo-information extraction, geo-reasoning and geologist-responsive inquiries" was invented by Peng Xu (Annadale, N.J.), Huseyin Denli (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Stijn De Waele (Flemington, N.J.) and Mary K. Johns (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for analyzing geophysical data is disclosed. Interpretation of geophysical data, such as seismic data, can be performed in multiple stages, such as at an information extraction stage and an information analysis stage. Typically, the in...