ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,055, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Transmission failure prediction by leveraging a production impact evaluation metric" was invented by Lokesh Pratap Singh (Bangalore, India), Yogendra Singh (Bangalore, India), Feng Feng (Houston), Fahad Ahmad (Houston), Yanmei Li (Houston), Gonzalo Federico Llanos (Houston), Gonzalo Martin Irusta (Neuquen, Argentina) and Bo Liang (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for scheduling reciprocating fracturing pump transmission maintenance. Accelerometers recording spectra are coupled to the transmission, and spectra w...