ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,653, issued on April 14, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Sand pile completion system and method" was invented by Herbe Gomez Conzatti y Martinez (Sugar Land, Texas), Karishma Mohini Prasad (Sugar Land, Texas), Chad Kraemer (Houston) and Salvador Ayala (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for stockpiling sand/or monitoring a sand stockpile includes obtaining one or more images associated with stockpiling sand used for a fracturing process of a hydrocarbon system and analyzing the one or more images to determine a site location for a sand stockpile and/or an amount of sand in the sand st...