US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 21 for "Library-based rock thin section interpretation using image encoders" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,615, issued on July 21, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Library-based rock thin section interpretation using image encoders" was invented by Robert Smith (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mustafa A. Al Ibrahim (Safwa, Saudi Arabia), Venkat Suryanar Pathi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Sahyun Hong (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems for library-based rock thin section interpretation using image encoders are disclosed. One example method includes obtaining multiple images of rock thin sections, where each of the multiple images is associated with a respective rock thin s...