US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Jan. 27 for "Seismic inversion downscaling and extrapolation for generation of seismic images" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,606, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Seismic inversion downscaling and extrapolation for generation of seismic images" was invented by Sherif Khattab (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Muhammad Ashraf (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for seismic imaging of a subterranean geological formation include receiving first acoustic impedance data, having a first resolution, associated with wells in a subsurface region. A system receives seismic data including second acoustic impedance data having a second resolution. The system performs a quality control process confi...