US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on June 2 for "Method for predicting a geophysical model of a subterranean region of interest" (Saudi Arabia, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,003, issued on June 2, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for predicting a geophysical model of a subterranean region of interest" was invented by Daniele Colombo (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Diego Rovetta (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods are disclosed for determining a model of a subterranean region. The method includes obtaining an observed dataset and a current model for the subterranean region, simulating a dataset from the current model, and determining a data penalty function based on a difference between the observed and simulated datasets. The method...