ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,686, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Intelligent mobile oilfield analytics platform" was invented by John Westerheide (Edmond, Okla.), Dustin Sharber (Oklahoma City), Jeffrey Potts (Oklahoma City), Mahendra Joshi (Katy, Texas), Xiaoqing Ge (Oklahoma City) and Jeremy Van Dam (Oklahoma City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed monitoring and analytics system is configured to automatically monitor conditions in a remote oil field. The distributed monitoring and analytics system generally includes one or more mobile monitoring units that each includes a vehicle, a sensor package...