ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,375, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Load management for power systems" was invented by Alexander Simon Chretien (Houston), Glenn Howard Weightman (Duncan, Okla.) and Madhur Kohli (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure presents processes for controlling a hydraulic fracturing operation at a wellbore. The processes can determine power available from each of one or more individual power sources. From the determined power available from the power sources, parasitic power losses, existing power consumed by one or more loads of the hydraulic fracturing operation, a threshold...