ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,740, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TotalEnergies One Tech (Courbevoie, France).
"Method for modelling the formation of a sedimentary basin using a stratigraphic forward modeling program" was invented by Gerard Massonnat (Pau, France) and Fanny Bastide (Pau, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for modelling the formation of a sedimentary basin using a stratigraphic forward modelling program is disclosed, wherein the stratigraphic forward modelling program simulates the superposition of successive layers of sediments, each layer of sediments corresponding to a determined period of time, the method comprising: a. Receivi...