ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,239, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Methods and systems for seismic imaging" was invented by Xin Cheng (Katy, Texas), Zongcai Feng (Houston), Gaurav Dutta (Houston), Jian Mao (Houston) and Denes Vigh (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a high-fidelity, high-resolution seismic image of a subsurface of a wellsite. The method includes receiving seismic data from wellsite equipment that is disposed at a wellsite. An initial estimation of an earth model is recovered from the received data and a depth migration workflow is performed that is based on the init...