ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,929, issued on May 27, was assigned to FMC Technologies Inc. (Houston).
"System and method for an automated and intelligent frac pad" was invented by Zachary Curry (Houston), Andrew Cappello (Houston), Thiago Machado (Houston), James Cook (Houston), Sobitha Gunatilleke (Houston), Rajeev Pillai (Houston), Hernan Anzola (Houston), Nathanial Ramsey (Houston), Clay Dixon (Houston) and Gabriel Tiviroli-Melchert (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a built hydraulic fracturing system with a plurality of devices connected together and a simulation of the built hydraulic fracturing system on a software application. Ad...