ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,927, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to EOG Resources Inc. (Houston).

"Water usage monitor and tracking" was invented by Pratik Kharel (Houston), Mark Metzger (Houston), Warren Sharp (Humble, Texas), Aaron Carl Shaffer (Houston), Jude Lloyd Ankrah (Cypress, Texas), Justin Alan Ward (Houston), Alexey Lukyanov (Houston), Ashley Sean Kessel (Bellaire, Texas), Alexander P. Jones (Houston), Bradley Bennett Burt (Corpus Christi, Texas), Nathan Rice (Durham, N.C.) and Dustin Cole Kinder (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for water management method for managing water used in extraction of fluids from subsurface forma...