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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2011
Applicants:
Lucas J. Hilliard, Oslo, NO;
William P. Brown, Houston, TX (US);
Indra N. Datta, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
ExxonMobile Upstream Research Company, Houston, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06G 7/50 (2006.01); G01V 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/00 (2013.01); G06F 17/50 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided a system and method for obtaining a model of data describing a physical structure. An exemplary method comprises defining a three-dimensional (3D) object that corresponds to a physical structure. The 3D object comprises a set of topological elements that each has an initial geometric definition. The exemplary method also comprises creating a subsequent model of the data by updating a subset of the topological elements in the 3D object. Each updated element in the subset has a geometric definition that has changed relative to its initial geometric definition.