ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,444, issued on April 29, was assigned to Momentum AI LLC (Edmond, Okla.).

"Spectral analysis, machine learning, and frac score assignment to acoustic signatures of fracking events" was invented by Reid Daniel Thompson (Edmond, Okla.), Jeffrey Neal Rose (Boulder, Colo.) and Jonathan Swanson Rose (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, method, and apparatus for classifying fracture quantity and quality of fracturing operation activities during hydraulic fracturing operations, the system comprising: a sensor coupled to a fracking wellhead, circulating fluid line, or standpipe of a well and configured to convert acoustic vi...