US Patent Issued to BJ Energy Solutions on Dec. 16 for "Power sources and transmission networks for auxiliary equipment onboard hydraulic fracturing units and associated methods" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,879, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to BJ Energy Solutions LLC (The Woodlands, Texas).

"Power sources and transmission networks for auxiliary equipment onboard hydraulic fracturing units and associated methods" was invented by Tony Yeung (The Woodlands, Texas), Ricardo Rodriguez-Ramon (The Woodlands, Texas), Joseph Foster (The Woodlands, Texas) and Nicholas Tew (The Woodlands, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of systems and methods disclosed provide a hydraulic fracturing unit that includes a reciprocating plunger pump configured to pump a fracturing fluid and a powertrain configured to power the reciprocating plunge...