ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,437, issued on July 14, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Multi-well blending system" was invented by Wesley John Warren (Duncan, Okla.) and Chad A. Fisher (Duncan, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blending unit is provided. The blending unit comprises two or more discharge pumps. Each of the two or more discharge pumps has a suction inlet fluidly connected to a common proppant fluid supply via a concentrated proppant inlet line, and a discharge outlet fluidly connected to a blender outlet line. Each of the two or more discharge pumps also has an injection port upstream of the discharge pump and confi...