US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Sept. 29 for "Quantum-assisted near surface analysis of seismic data" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,232, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Quantum-assisted near surface analysis of seismic data" was invented by Diego Rovetta (Delft, Netherlands) and Marcin Szymon Dukalski (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for near surface analysis of seismic data include obtaining seismic data for a subsurface formation; forming one or more seismic gathers by sorting the seismic data into a plurality of bins based on a midpoint and an offset between a source and a receiver associated with the seismic data; determining, using a hybrid classical and quantum solver...