ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,558, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Reflector tracking for waveform data" was invented by Nobuyasu Hirabayashi (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing operation of a well are disclosed. The method may include obtaining sonic log data for a geological formation in which the well is positioned. An iterative cross-correlation based reflector tracking process may be performed using the sonic log data to obtain a reflector data package. The reflector data package may include a plurality of points on a reflector and a plurality of dip angles ...