ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,548, issued on July 15, was assigned to U.S. WELL SERVICES LLC (Houston).

"Electric motor driven transportation mechanisms for fracturing blenders" was invented by Alexander Christinzio (Houston), Brandon Hinderliter (Houston), Lon Robinson (Houston) and Jared Oehring (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for electric-motor driven transportation mechanism for fracturing operations is disclosed. The system includes at least one transportation mechanism to transport blender components for a blender fluid from a first tub that may be a proppant hopper to a second tub that may be a blender tub and that may be associated with a...