ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,501, issued on July 15, was assigned to CDM SMITH INC. (Boston).

"Pumping efficiency apparatus and method" was invented by David L. Ubert (Sorrento, Fla.), Patrick R. McCafferty (Hanover, Mass.), Janardhanan Vinoth Upendra (Chennai, India), Zubair F. Ghafoor (Aurora, Ill.) and T Sai Revanth (Jawaharnagar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide functionality to control real-world mechanical systems through the creation and deployment of machine learning models. An embodiment creates the machine learning model by extracting (i) an indication of efficiency and (ii) values of operational characteristics of one or more d...