US Patent Issued to Landmark Graphics on July 28 for "Gridless volumetric computation" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,448, issued on July 28, was assigned to Landmark Graphics Corp. (Houston).

"Gridless volumetric computation" was invented by Genbao Shi (Houston), Raquel Medina (Houston) and Sebastien Bruno Strebelle (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method for computing, by a volume data processor, volumetrics of a subsurface region without gridlines associated with the subsurface region comprises creating, in the volume data processor, a geometry representing the subsurface region and first bounding box about the geometry, computing a first probability that a group of sampled points inside the first bounding box are insi...