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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2016
Applicant:

Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Inventors:

Milan Frank, Oxfordshire, GB;

Anton Alenov, Oxfordshire, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 16/35 (2019.01); G06Q 50/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/353 (2019.01); G06F 16/358 (2019.01); G06Q 50/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, apparatus, and program product cluster a plurality of cells of an input unstructured volumetric grid representative of a subsurface volume into a plurality of clusters, simplify a boundary of each cluster and generate an output unstructured volumetric grid representing at least a portion of the input unstructured volumetric grid by generating in the output unstructured volumetric grid a respective cell for each of the plurality of clusters. The resulting output grid may be used to facilitate the generation of visualizations and/or numerical simulations.


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