US Patent Issued to Downing Wellhead Equipment on Sept. 8 for "Hydraulic fracturing plan and execution of same" (Illinois, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,600, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Downing Wellhead Equipment LLC (Oklahoma City).

"Hydraulic fracturing plan and execution of same" was invented by Jordan Kuehn (Forest Park, Ill.), Austin Johnson (Edmond, Okla.), Ronnie B. Beason (Lexington, Okla.) and Nicholas J. Cannon (Washington, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic fracturing plan executable by a hydraulic fracturing system to hydraulically fracture a plurality of oil and gas wells is disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the execution of the hydraulic fracturing plan by the hydraulic fracturing system includes: queuing, using a controller, a first well in a ...