ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,956, issued on March 25, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Fracturing operations pump fleet balance controller" was invented by Nan Mu (Sugar Land, Texas), Yan P. Kuhn De Chizelle (Houston), Florence Binet (Sugar Land, Texas), Manbro Lee (Sugar Land, Texas), Alexander Tanner Taylor (Missouri City, Texas), Bryan Suharik (Luxembourg), Clare Schoene (Houston), James Matthews (Houston), Bao Mi (Sugar Land, Texas) and Muktabh Anchlia (Missouri City, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include one or more processors; memory; a data interface that receives data; a control interface that trans...