US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on Aug. 19 for "Automatically detecting a key parameter affecting pump components" (Oklahoma, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,205, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Automatically detecting a key parameter affecting pump components" was invented by Stanley Vernon Stephenson (Duncan, Okla.), Harold Grayson Walters (Houston), Shahab Jamali Ghare Tape (Houston) and Joseph A. Beisel (Duncan, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The life of internal components of a frack pump is affected by the frack fluid being pumped. The disclosure evaluates pump components and identifies parameters of frack pumps that may affect the remaining life of pump components based on pump models generated using flow type histories of the f...