ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,271, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Cement mixer and multiple purpose pumper (CMMP) for land rig" was invented by Jacques Orban (Livingston, Texas), Shunfeng Zheng (Katy, Texas), Bartley Patton (Sugar Land, Texas) and Eric Erickson (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed provide a pump assembly including a first pump for delivering at least one fluid. The first pump may include a first inlet coupled to the first pump for delivering at least one first fluid to the first pump, a second inlet coupled to the first pump for delivering at least one seco...