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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:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2015
Applicant:
Cgg Services SA, Massy, FR;
Inventor:
Yuan Ni, Paris, FR;
Assignee:
CGG SERVICES SAS, Massy, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/38 (2006.01); G01V 1/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/36 (2013.01); G01V 1/3808 (2013.01); G01V 1/3861 (2013.01); G01V 2210/1293 (2013.01); G01V 2210/56 (2013.01);
Abstract
Marine seismic sources for exploring formations under the seafloor using reflection seismology include ghost attenuators for reducing or eliminating ghost signals. Such a ghost attenuator is located in the water above an individual source element and 5 water surface and is configured to dissipate energy of up-going signals and/or to redirect the up-going signals.