ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,791, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Automated methods for generating labeled benchmark data set of geological thin-section images for machine learning and geospatial analysis" was invented by Weichang Li (Houston), Osama B. Dabbousi (Houston), Saif S. Alhajri (Houston) and Mustafa Ali H. Al Ibrahim (Safwa, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for generating a labeled benchmark dataset are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a plurality of sources related to a thin section using web scraping and extracting a plurality of images from the plurali...