ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,870, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods and systems for an online machine-learned non-linear beamforming tuple solver" was invented by Yimin Sun (The Hague, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a non-linear beamforming (NLBF) tuple is disclosed. The method includes receiving a seismic data set and discretizing the seismic data set into a plurality of NLBF sub-problems. The method includes solving a subset of the NLBF sub-problems with a non-linear optimizer to create final NLBF tuples. The method further includes periodically training a machine-l...