US Patent Issued to NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO on June 17 for "Close coupled fluid processing system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,624, issued on June 17, was assigned to NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO LP (Houston).

"Close coupled fluid processing system" was invented by Travis Lee Bolt (Conroe, Texas), Lewis Paul Callaway (College Station, Texas), Eric O'Reilly Sears (College Station, Texas) and Jonathan Tyler Maxwell (Willis, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A close coupled processing system may include a fluid processing system for producing frac fluid for frac operations, a fluid distribution system for distributing the frac fluid to a plurality of pressurization units, and a large bore fluid connection connecting the fluid processing system and the fluid distri...