ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,918, issued on June 23, was assigned to ROAM-AI LLC (Oklahoma City).

"System for dynamic optimization of back pressure on a fluid well" was invented by David L. Benham (Okarche, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "On an oil well equipped with an electric submersible pump (ESP), a valve combination coupled with a controller running a machine learning model provides for continuous valve actuator setting adjustment of a back pressure control valve (e.g., valve actuator settings updated at intervals on the order of 100 ms), and/or adjustment of a variable speed drive (VSD), to achieve tight control around a tubing pressure set point for...