ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,203, issued on April 7, was assigned to TOTALENERGIES ONETECH (Courbevoie, France).
"Layering for geomodeling" was invented by Pauline Durand Riard (Courbevoie, France) and Aurele Forge (Courbevoie, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention notably relates to a computer-implemented method of geomodelling. The method comprises providing a pseudo-stratigraphic grid representing a reservoir having geological units and having pillars which each include respective cells. Each geological unit is represented by a respective portion of the pseudo-stratigraphic grid, and each geological unit has a respective top, a respective base, ...