US Patent Issued to Landmark Graphics on May 20 for "Pump systems and methods to improve pump load predictions" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,632, issued on May 20, was assigned to Landmark Graphics Corp. (Houston).

"Pump systems and methods to improve pump load predictions" was invented by Srinath Madasu (Houston) and Keshava Prasad Rangarajan (Sugarland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments include pump systems and methods to improve pump load predictions of pumps. The method includes determining, in a neural network, a pump load of a wellbore pump based on a physics based model of the pump load of the wellbore pump. The method also includes obtaining a measured pump load of the wellbore pump. After initiation of a pump cycle of the wellbore pum...