ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,063, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Foster Findlay Associates Ltd. (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain).

"System and method for improved geographical data interpretation" was invented by James Lowell (Durham, Great Britain), William Thormont (Sunderland, Great Britain) and Dimitrios Sakkos (Amaliada, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided for interpreting geophysical data utilising an Artificial Neural Network (ANN), performed by electronic operations executed by a computing device, comprising: performing a training processing step on at least one training-data set, comprising the steps of...