US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on July 29 for "System and method for controlling cumulative pumping rate" (Texas, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,081, issued on July 29, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"System and method for controlling cumulative pumping rate" was invented by Madhur Kohli (Houston), Timothy Holiman Hunter (Duncan, Okla.) and Bruce Carl Lucas (Duncan, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for balancing a pump load of a plurality of pumping units during a pumping operation comprising determining a first balance pump load based on a set of weighted factors. The method determines a second balanced pump load after receiving an indication of reduced pumping performance from a first pumping unit. The method excludes the first pump...