US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Feb. 24 for "Characterization of subsurface geological formations" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,742, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Characterization of subsurface geological formations" was invented by Xingquan Zhang (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Neelesh R. Tripathi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for characterizing a subsurface formation include: measuring a property of the subsurface formation at a plurality of locations; storing values of the property of the subsurface formation at the plurality of locations; defining a distance of influence for the property in the subsurface formation based on the property and on a degree of heteroge...