US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on June 30 for "Hybrid seabed seismic acquisition geometry using a combination of nodes and autonomous underwater vehicles" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,628, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Hybrid seabed seismic acquisition geometry using a combination of nodes and autonomous underwater vehicles" was invented by Constantinos Tsingas (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed. The method includes determining a seismic acquisition grid for a seismic survey, composed of a first receiver grid, a second receiver grid, and a source grid, deploying a first plurality of seismic receivers according to the locations of the first receiver grid, and a second plurality of seismic receivers accordin...