ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,444, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and methods for quality-controlling seismic datasets" was invented by Yimin Sun (Den Hague, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing quality assessment of a seismic dataset. The method may include determining a first coherency distribution for a first calibration seismic dataset with a first quality rating and determining a second coherency distribution for a second calibration seismic dataset with a second quality rating. The method further includes determining a coherency threshold based on the first coheren...