US Patent Issued to OptiSeis Solutions on April 14 for "Systems and methods for planning seismic data acquisition with reduced environmental impact" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,849, issued on April 14, was assigned to OptiSeis Solutions Ltd. (Calgary AB, Canada).

"Systems and methods for planning seismic data acquisition with reduced environmental impact" was invented by Andrea Crook (Calgary, Canada) and Shane Bossaer (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to systems and methods for designing seismic surveys to enable seismic data acquisition with a reduced environmental impact and lower survey costs. The methods include incorporating surface and subsurface data and associated parameters for a proposed survey area and assigning weighting values to the relative ranking of the...