ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,776, issued on July 28, was assigned to FMC Technologies Inc. (Houston).
"Continuous sanding operation for a hydraulic fracturing system" was invented by James Cook (Houston) and Corey Massey (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for continuous sanding operations of a hydraulic fracturing system, in which one or more dedicated pumps are used to continuously pump fracturing slurry into at least one well and seamlessly switch between a plurality of wells. One or more ancillary pumps may be included to pump ancillary fluid and performed ancillary operations on other wells while the dedicated pump is pumpi...