US Patent Issued to SHELL USA on Feb. 24 for "Calibrating direct flow simulations of rock samples" (British, Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,563, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SHELL USA INC. (Houston).

"Calibrating direct flow simulations of rock samples" was invented by Daan Willem De Kort (Amsterdam), Matthias Appel (Houston), Benjamin Charles Anger (Houston), John Justin Freeman (Houston), Faruk Omer Alpak (Houston), Lynn Faith Gladden (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andrew John Sederman (Cambridge, Great Britain), Michael David Mantle (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Kaspars Karlsons (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating a direct flow simulation of a rock sample involves providing a 3D image of a rock sample and generating a ...