US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on April 21 for "Interpolation of a seismic velocity model using a projections onto convex sets method" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,761, issued on April 21, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Interpolation of a seismic velocity model using a projections onto convex sets method" was invented by Yimin Sun (The Hague, Netherlands) and Quentin Hirsch (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a sparse seismic velocity model for a subterranean region of interest. The sparse seismic velocity model includes populated positions and missing positions, where each populated position includes a velocity. The method further includes determining an interpolated seismic ve...