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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:
Nov. 15, 2016

Filed:

May. 09, 2012
Applicants:

Garrett M Leahy, Kerrville, TX (US);

Christopher Dicaprio, Houston, TX (US);

Charlie Jing, Houston, TX (US);

Anoop a Mullur, Houston, TX (US);

Rebecca L Saltzer, Houston, TX (US);

Jan Schmedes, Bellaire, TX (US);

Inventors:

Garrett M Leahy, Kerrville, TX (US);

Christopher DiCaprio, Houston, TX (US);

Charlie Jing, Houston, TX (US);

Anoop A Mullur, Houston, TX (US);

Rebecca L Saltzer, Houston, TX (US);

Jan Schmedes, Bellaire, TX (US);

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/00 (2006.01); G01V 99/00 (2009.01); G01V 11/00 (2006.01); G01V 1/30 (2006.01); G01V 3/38 (2006.01); G01V 7/00 (2006.01); G01V 1/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 99/005 (2013.01); G01V 11/00 (2013.01); G01V 1/282 (2013.01); G01V 1/30 (2013.01); G01V 1/306 (2013.01); G01V 3/38 (2013.01); G01V 7/00 (2013.01); G01V 2210/612 (2013.01); G01V 2210/614 (2013.01); G01V 2210/616 (2013.01); G01V 2210/62 (2013.01);
Abstract

Method for adaptive weighting of geophysical data types in iterative joint inversion to speed convergence and aid escape from local minima of the penalty (objective) function. Two or more geophysical data sets () representing a region of interest are obtained, and are jointly inverted to infer models of the physical properties that affect the particular types of data used. The misfit for each data type is a weighted tem in the penalty function (). The invention involves changing the weights () as the iteration cycles progress when the iteration convergence criteria are satisfied (), to see if they remain satisfied () with the modified penalty function.


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