US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Oct. 6 for "Packing failure detection in a pump of a hydraulic fracturing rig" (Illinois, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,093, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Packing failure detection in a pump of a hydraulic fracturing rig" was invented by Yanchai Zhang (Dunlap, Ill.), Zhaoxu Dong (Dunlap, Ill.), Xuefei Hu (Dunlap, Ill.) and Daryl James Belshan (Weatherford, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system obtains sensor data that includes: first vibration data related to vibration of an inlet manifold of a pump of a hydraulic fracturing rig, pump speed data related to a speed of the pump, pressure data related to a pressure of an outlet manifold of the pump, second vibration data related to vibration of a packing of th...