US Patent Issued to Halliburton Energy Services on March 24 for "Continuous pumping operations using decoupled pump maintenance" (Oklahoma, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,395, issued on March 24, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Continuous pumping operations using decoupled pump maintenance" was invented by Brad Robert Bull (Duncan, Okla.), Timothy Holiman Hunter (Duncan, Okla.), Kurt Harpold (Duncan, Okla.), Gero Testa (Duncan, Okla.), Andrew Silas Clyburn (Duncan, Okla.), Brandon Ellis (Duncan, Okla.) and Russell Ray Lockman (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure presents systems and methods for hot swapping pumps at a wellsite while minimizing the impact to the pumping operations. As one pump is swapped out, such as for maintenance, the remaining pumps in...