ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,851, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Enhanced quality borehole image generation and method" was invented by Andriy Gelman (Cambridge, Mass.), Arnaud Croux (Clamart, France) and Suraj Kiran Raman (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for enhancing borehole images that learning patterns from historical borehole recorded mode image logs for a given basin to enhance real-time borehole images, use style characteristics from one example borehole recorded mode image to enhance real-time borehole images; optimize downhole data for transmission leveraging the presence...