ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,323, issued on May 5, was assigned to Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston).

"Intelligent screen out mitigation" was invented by Chaitanya Mallikarajun Karale (Houston) and Elijah Sterling Bogle (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods may be configured for acquiring one or more pumping operation measurements at a surface during a fracturing operation; calculating a least resistance condition for the fracturing operation based at least in part on the fracturing operation and the one or more pumping operation measurements. In addition, systems and methods may also be configured for calculating a new resistance co...