ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,117, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Using deep-learning models to automatically identify subsurface reservoir boundaries in real time" was invented by Zhenhua Li (Singapore), Fei Wang (Tianjin, China), Farid Toghi (Beijing), Soazig Leveque (Seria, China), Bingqi Liu (Beijing) and Ji Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure focuses on using a boundary identification system to actively determine borders and boundaries in subsurface geological features, such as reservoirs. In various implementations, the boundary identification system uses an ensemble image model l...