ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,037, issued on March 24, was assigned to ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co. (Spring, Texas).

"Method and system for augmented inversion and uncertainty quantification for characterizing geophysical bodies" was invented by Dongzhuo Li (Katy, Texas), Huseyin Denli (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Cody MacDonald (Houston) and Kyle J. Basler-Reeder (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for augmented inversion and uncertainty quantification for characterizing geophysical bodies is disclosed. The method includes machine-learning-augmented inversion that also facilitates the characterization of uncertainties in ge...