ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,539, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to FMC Technologies Inc..

"Well fracture systems and methods" was invented by Tep Ungchusri (Houston), Philippe Espinasse (Houston), Jean-Luc Streiff (Houston), Gary Bernard (Houston), Brian Swagerty (Houston), Johann Rongau (Houston), Sunil Dutt (Houston), Dan Fink (Houston), Justin Taylor (Houston) and James Cook (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing simultaneous operations at a wellsite comprising two or more adjacent wellheads, each respectively connected to a well, may include the following steps: providing a fluid supply via upstream equipment to an intermediate suppl...