ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,112, issued on May 26, was assigned to LANDMARK GRAPHICS Corp. (Houston).
"Methods and systems to determine and optimize reservoir simulator performance in a cloud computing environment" was invented by Erdinc Eker (Golden, Colo.), Qinghua Wang (Katy, Texas), Travis St. George Ramsay (Hockley, Texas) and Steven Paul Crockett (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for allocating resources for executing a simulation. These include receiving a simulation for execution, calculating an initial runtime of an initial time step of the simulation, determining a total runtime of the simulation based ...