ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,643, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Atlas Sand Co. LLC (Austin, Texas).
"Proppant delivery systems and related methods" was invented by Christopher R. Scholla (Austin, Texas), Alexandra Couture (Leander, Texas) and Dacia Webb (Cedar Park, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of transporting proppant to a wellsite can comprise transporting a plurality of trailers to a proppant-loading site, each of the trailers comprising one or more containers. At the proppant-loading site, proppant can be loaded into the container(s) of each of first and second ones of the trailers. A long combination vehicle comprising a truck and the ...