ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,109, issued on July 21, was assigned to Southwest Petroleum University (Chengdu City, China).
"Intelligent identification method of aquifer distribution in complex edge-water oil and gas reservoirs" was invented by Xiaohua Tan (Chengdu City, China), Jinbo Li (Chengdu City, China), Xiaobing Han (Chengdu City, China), Xiaoping Li (Chengdu City, China), Mingqing Kui (Chengdu City, China), Zihan Zhao (Chengdu City, China), Xixiang Liu (Chengdu City, China), Tao Li (Chengdu City, China), Youjie Xu (Chengdu City, China), Yumin Li (Chengdu City, China) and Yongqiang Jin (Chengdu City, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent iden...