ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,547, issued on July 15, was assigned to BJ Energy Solutions LLC (The Woodlands, Texas).

"Hydraulic fracturing blender 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: "A multi-blender system for blending liquid and solid particulates together to prepare a fracturing fluid, the blender system can include a plurality of independently operable blender units each having components that can operate with either blender unit. Each component may be a modular blender component mounted to respective independent frames. The independent frames are configured to be...