ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,539, issued on May 6, was assigned to Momentum AI LLC (Edmond, Okla.).

"Spectral analysis and machine learning for determining cluster efficiency during fracking operations" 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: "This disclosure presents systems, methods, and apparatus for determining cluster efficiency during hydraulic fracturing, the method comprising: measuring acoustic vibrations in fracking fluid in a fracking wellhead, circulating fluid line, or standpipe of a well; converting the acoustic vibrations into a...