ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,373, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY (Chengdu, China).

"Denoising methods and systems for preserving amplitude variation with offset (AVO) features of pre-stack seismic data" was invented by Weiping Cao (Chengdu, China), Ran Yang (Chengdu, China), Xuri Huang (Chengdu, China), Xiaoqing Cui (Chengdu, China), Mengcheng Li (Chengdu, China), Luo Li (Chengdu, China), Haoyuan Li (Chengdu, China), Mengyu Ren (Chengdu, China), Sheng Yang (Sichuan, China), Moyan Li (Chengdu, China) and Xinwang Li (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a denoising method and a system for p...