US Patent Issued to SPM Oil & Gas on Aug. 18 for "Controlling suction valves of a fluid pump" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,035, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SPM Oil & Gas Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas).

"Controlling suction valves of a fluid pump" was invented by Daryl James Belshan (Weatherford, Texas), Wesley P Clark (Weatherford, Texas), Ralph Harris (Fort Worth, Texas) and Chandu Kumar (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suction valve control system of a fluid pump, that is configured to discharge fluid during a plurality of discharge cycles, may include a plurality of suction valves for respective cylinders of a fluid end of the fluid pump. The plurality of suction valves may be configured to close during the plurality of discharge c...