US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Sept. 8 for "Direct arrival replacement for seismic imaging" (British, Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,241, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Direct arrival replacement for seismic imaging" was invented by Paal Kristiansen (Oslo, Norway) and Philippe Caprioli (Chelmsford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computing systems, computer-readable media, and methods for direct arrival replacement. The method includes creating intermediate data from an acquired data by attenuating a direct arrival signal or attenuating the direct arrival signal and one or more strong early arrival signals recorded at a receiver; transforming the temporary data from a first processing domain into...