ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,570, issued on April 14, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Machine learning driven dispersion curve picking" was invented by Anisha Kaul (Houston), Phillip Bilsby (Brighton, Great Britain) and Aria Abubakar (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for modeling a subterranean volume includes receiving seismic data comprising a signal, generating a semblance in the frequency-wavenumber domain for the seismic data, wherein the semblance represents a coherence of the signal in the frequency-wavenumber domain, extracting one or more wave energy modes in the semblance using a machine lea...