ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,731, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Work flow based acoustic processing system and method" was invented by Henri-Pierre Valero (Paris), Takeshi Endo (Houston), Hrvoje Markovic (Houston), Yoshisuke Fukagawa (Sagamihara, Japan), Yuta Okabe (Sagamihara, Japan), Shinichi Sunaga (Tokyo), Mitsuko Kitazawa (Sagamihara, Japan), Ryoko Hayashi (Tokyo) and Ivayla Gueorguieva (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, article and system are provided for processing and interpreting acoustic data. The method and system includes providing a number of acoustic processing elements, each e...