US Patent Issued to Atlas Sand on Aug. 25 for "Wellsite proppant storage and transport systems and methods" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,704, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Atlas Sand Co. LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Wellsite proppant storage and transport systems and methods" was invented by Christopher R. Scholla (Austin, Texas), William Warner (Austin, Texas) and Alexander Ellerbusch (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of storing and transporting sand at a wellsite is provided. In a first aspect, the system includes a sand pile; at least one first conveyor; at least one ramp on which a vehicle may travel to provide sand from the vehicle to a receiving area of the at least one first conveyor; and at least one second conveyor disposed at least partial...