ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,129, issued on May 12, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Cost function engineering for estimating uncertainty correlated with prediction errors" was invented by Ravinath Kausik Kadayam Viswanathan (Sharon, Mass.), Lalitha Venkataramanan (Lexington, Mass.), Andras Szep (Tucson, Ariz.) and Lucas Pelegrin (Pulask, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a non-transitory computer readable medium for performing a calculation in a neural network comprise: accepting a data set into the neural network; performing a calculations with the neural network using the data set, wherein the calculations use ...