US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on June 23 for "Exploring a subsurface formation" (Saudi Arabia, Chinese, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,553, issued on June 23, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Exploring a subsurface formation" was invented by Yujin Liu (Beijing), Thierry-Laurent Dominique Tonellot (Montferrier-sur-lez, France), Yi He (Beijing), Young Seo Kim (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Hussain J. Salim (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for mapping a subsurface formation can include: generating a velocity model representing the subsurface formation based on the seismic data; determining an upper bound for traveltime within the velocity model from a seismic source; and generating a seismic image of the subsurfa...