PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870713
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["166", "308100"]

Abstract:
The disclosure provides fracturing methods having advantage over current fracturing methods. The disclosed fracturing methods can change the fracture gradient of the downhole subterranean formation. For example, one or more of the fracture gradients of the low and high stress zones of the downhole subterranean formation can be changed. Furthermore, in relation to current practices, the methods can decrease the extent and/or degree of fracturing within low stress downhole formations and increase the degree of fracturing within high stress formations.

Claim (Index 28):
The method of  claim 25 , wherein the carrier liquid comprises a proppant, wherein the gas is substantially compressible and the carrier liquid is substantially incompressible, and wherein a portion of the gas occupies pressurized features in the injection well at a sufficient pressure to cause the carrier fluid to be diverted to fracture additional features of the subterranean formation to form additional fractures or pore volumes, wherein the gas diverts the carrier liquid from fracturing a previously stimulated area and forces the carrier liquid to fracture a previously unstimulated area, and wherein pressurization of the features by the gas creates a barrier to the carrier fluid and substantially inhibits fracturing of the pressurized features by the carrier fluid.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 62.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8913
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15870677', '14957182', '15197384', '15627160', '14728719']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8842290915393524
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5974539508942509
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8555515774748422
- Mean Citation Score: 498.393628
- Max Citation Score: 569.9116
- Similarity Product: 495.1212873583317

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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