US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on March 31 for "Quantification of sensor coverage using synthetic modeling and uses of the quantification" (Nevada, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,024, issued on March 31, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Quantification of sensor coverage using synthetic modeling and uses of the quantification" was invented by Kishore Mulchandani (Henderson, Nev.) and Bernard Van Haecke (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including receiving a data structure including a model including a virtual object. The virtual object has spatial elements that form an area of the virtual object. The method also includes applying a ray tracing algorithm to the model. The ray tracing algorithm directs virtual rays from a remote point in the model ...