ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,431, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Managing training wells for target wells in machine learning" was invented by Chicheng Xu (Houston), Tao Lin (Katy, Texas), Lei Fu (Houston), Weichang Li (Katy, Texas) and Yaser Alzayer (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus including computer-readable mediums for managing training wells for target wells in machine learning are provided. In one aspect, a method includes: for each training well of a plurality of training wells, building a training network for the training well based on well log data of...