US Patent Issued to Oil States Energy Services on March 31 for "Hands free frac line connection method and system" (Louisiana, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,523, issued on March 31, was assigned to Oil States Energy Services LLC (Houston).

"Hands free frac line connection method and system" was invented by Tyler Hollier (Carencro, La.), Jimmy Livingston (Manvel, Texas) and Dennis Clemmons (Youngsville, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for establishing a remote connection between a hydraulic fracturing head and hydraulic fracturing tubing line that is not reliant on personnel to manually establish a connection between the hydraulic fracturing tubing line and hydraulic fracturing head. The hydraulic fracturing tubing head is elevated above and connected to a wellbore. Next, a h...