ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,286, issued on April 8.

"Apparatus and method for fracking optimization" was invented by David Cook (Lakeway, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for fracking optimization, wherein the apparatus includes at least a processor, and a memory, wherein the memory containing instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive a reservoir datum from at least a sensing device, generate a production training data include a plurality of reservoir datums as input correlated to a plurality of optimal production parameters as output, train a fracking optimization machine-learning model using the production traini...