ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,817, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"System and method for modeling a rock sample" was invented by Abrar Alabbad (Al-Jish, Saudi Arabia) and Yazeed Altowairqi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rock modeling method is disclosed. An effective rock property of a rock sample is determined based on a digital rock. Instead of upscaling rock properties, the digital rock is constructed by upscaling relationships and rock physics models of segmented rock materials. Relationships between different scalar, elastic, and petrophysical properties of different segmented rock...