ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,864, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to BJ Energy Solutions LLC (The Woodlands, Texas).
"Systems and methods to reduce acoustic resonance or disrupt standing wave formation in a fluid manifold of a high-pressure fracturing system" was invented by Tony Yeung (Houston), Nicholas Tew (Houston) and William Nieuwenburg (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example fluid manifold, for a fracturing system, includes one or more spool sections and a flow passage at least partially defined by the spool sections that extends along a longitudinal axis. In addition, the manifold includes a first flow altering assembly positioned along the flow...