G01V 1/3861
Control of source arrays
Official title: {control of source arrays, e.g. for far field control}
G01V1/3861 (Control of source arrays) appears on 199 US grants and 227 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01V- Granted patents
- 199
- Published applications
- 227
- Assignees
- 51
- Inventors
- 250
- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
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| 2023 | 8 | 7 |
| 2024 | 8 | 3 |
| 2025 | 4 | 3 |
| 2026 | 4 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Multi-source with inline offset and method28 Jul 2026US 12,691,976 B2Cgg Services SAS
- System and method for obtaining minimum-phase source-signatures from multi-channel multi-offset seismic data19 May 2026US 12,631,777 B2The Board of Regents for the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges
- System and method for generating source activation times or locations in blended marine seismic acquisitions10 Feb 2026US 12,546,909 B2PGS Geophysical AS
- Continuous seismic data acquisition having variable density source geometry20 Jan 2026US 12,529,815 B2ACTeQ LLC
- Direct fill chamber4 Nov 2025US 12,461,259 B2TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company
- Multi-source with inline offset and method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307761 A1Cgg Services SAS
- System and method for acquiring marine seismic data using a vibrator16 Apr 2026US 2026/0104526 A1Reflection Marine Norge AS
- Direct fill chamber5 Feb 2026US 2026/0036708 A1TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company
- Systems and methods for improving seismic data analysis using dithering techniques8 Jan 2026US 2026/0009922 A1
- Multi-source with inline offset and method31 Jul 2025US 2025/0242892 A1Cgg Services SAS
Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods for acquiring and processing seismic data116US 5,924,049 AWestern Atlas International, Inc. · 1999
- Method of marine seismic exploration utilizing vertically and horizontally offset streamers86US 6,493,636 B1Shell Oil Company · 2002
- Method for acquiring marine seismic data having statistically distributed azimuths and offsets59US 5,430,689 AAtlantic Richfield Company · 1995
- Marine seismic source array49US 4,721,180 AWestern Atlas International, Inc. · 1988
- Airgun marine seismic survey streamer method and apparatus45US 4,038,630 ABolt Associates, Inc. · 1977