US Patent Issued to GEOSCIENCE Support Services on April 22 for "Wellfield management systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,569, issued on April 22, was assigned to GEOSCIENCE Support Services Inc. (San Dimas, Calif.).

"Wellfield management systems and methods" was invented by Dennis E. Williams (Altadena, Calif.) and Mark D. Williams (Long Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods corresponding with improved wellfield management are provided. In some examples, the system may initiate a step drawdown test of well efficiency to determine a cause of a decreased discharge rate of the wellfield site. The system may alter pumping of the wellfield site based on the step drawdown test, wherein a command signal is transmitted via a SCADA sys...