US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on April 7 for "Geologically meaningful subsurface model generation based on a text description" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,202, issued on April 7, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Geologically meaningful subsurface model generation based on a text description" was invented by Anatoly Aseev (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product are provided for generating a subsurface model by an image generating machine learning model (MLM). A text prompt is received describing a subsurface geological feature. A text encoder encodes the text prompt into a text embedding. The text embedding is processed by the image generating MLM, specifically trained on pairs of text descripti...