ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,974, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to U.S. WELL SERVICES LLC (Willow Park, Texas).
"Systems and methods for fluid end health monitoring" was invented by Alexander Christinzio (Houston), Arden Albert (Calgary, Canada), Lon Robinson (Houston) and Jared Oehring (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of hydraulic fracturing includes providing a fracturing fluid to a pump. The pump includes a pressure sensor for measuring pressure at a fluid end. The method further include injecting the fracturing fluid from the pump into a wellhead via the fluid end, obtaining a first pressure measurement at a discharge side of the fluid end ...