ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,615, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to YANTAI JEREH PETROLEUM EQUIPMENT & TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Yantai, China).

"Pump system, wellsite layout and method for controlling the pump system" was invented by Jifeng Zhong (Yantai, China), Liang Lv (Yantai, China), Shouzhe Li (Yantai, China), Jihua Wang (Yantai, China), Xincheng Li (Yantai, China) and Yipeng Wu (Yantai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pumping system includes an electric fracturing device and multiple power supply systems. The electric fracturing device includes a plunger pump, a main motor for driving the plunger pump, and at least one auxiliary electric device. The...